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. 2021 Dec 1;11(12):3428. doi: 10.3390/ani11123428

Table 3.

Fecal moisture content (fecal consistency) and ileal moisture content of broiler chickens infected with different dosages of Eimeria tenella on 5 to 6 days post-infection (dpi), 6 to 7 dpi, and 7 to 8 dpi (fecal moisture content), and at 6 and 9 dpi (ileal moisture content) 1.

Items Eimeria tenella-Challenged Polynomial Contrast
T0 T1 T2 T3 T4 SEM p Value Lin. Quad.
Feces
5 to 6 dpi 78.23 76.76 75.91 76.56 76.99 1.66 0.22 0.22 0.04
6 to 7 dpi 68.14 69.68 73.38 74.64 68.66 4.87 0.12 0.35 0.03
7 to 8 dpi 70.81 71.87 73.09 75.07 74.86 2.52 0.03 <0.01 0.65
Ileum
6 dpi 81.75 81.83 80.6 80.94 80.81 0.76 0.03 0.01 0.33
9 dpi 80.34 80.1 81.24 80.62 79.93 1.22 0.42 0.9 0.18

1 T0: treatment 0 (Sham-challenged with phosphate-buffered saline); T1, treatment 1 (challenged with 6250 sporulated oocysts of E. tenella); T2, treatment 2 (challenged with 12,500 sporulated oocysts of E. tenella); T3, treatment 3 (challenged with 25,000 sporulated oocysts of E. tenella); T4, treatment 4 (challenged with 50,000 sporulated oocysts of E. tenella). At each time point, orthogonal polynomial contrasts analysis was conducted to see linear pattern (L) and quadratic pattern (Q) among the treatments.