Table 7.

Intensity of T. spiralis and T. britovi ML infection (lpg) and distribution of the larvae in the different parts of the tongue of pigs experimentally infected with 300 ML of T. spiralis (n = 10) and 5,000 ML of T. britovi (n = 8).

Anatomical part of the tongue		Intensity of Trichinella ML infection (lpg) in pigs infected with:
		T. spiralis	T. britovi
Tip (apex linguae)	Mean	22.94	22.93
	SD	19.90	7.93
	Median	15.99	24.45
	IQR	14.11–30.55	16.21–27.09
Body (corpus linguae)	Mean	24.85	33.57
	SD	14.22	15.62
	Median	28.41	35.40
	IQR	15.13–34.99	18.08–47.52
Root (radix linguae)	Mean	23.66	29.02
	SD	24.79	10.75
	Median	18.70	30.84
	IQR	9.05–26.32	18.60–38.74
	P	0.703**	0.211*
Entire tongue (lingua)	Mean	24.30	30.34
	SD	16.41	11.42
	Median	24.18	33.72
	IQR	13.86–29.47	18.97–39.97

Individual parts of the tongue (the tip, body and root) were compared with each other.

P-values were calculated using one-way ANOVA with Welch's correction (*) or non-parametric Kruskal–Wallis test (**). SD, standard deviation; IQR, interquartile range (Q25–Q75%).