. 2022 Mar 11;101(6):101853. doi: 10.1016/j.psj.2022.101853

Table 3.

Mean oocyst output (logOPG) and standard deviation (SD) for all Eimeria species combined (total) and for E. maxima separately for the different treatments and days of the experiment.

		d14				d22
TRT¹	Anticoccidial	Log OPG total²		Log OPG E. maxima²		Log OPG total		Log OPG E. maxima²
		Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
1	No	4.78	0.28	4.30	0.43	5.16	0.48	4.47	0.53
2	No	4.93	0.30	4.46	0.27	4.92	0.41	4.23	0.42
3	No	4.71	0.27	4.29	0.29	5.12	0.58	4.51	0.63
4	No	4.79	0.51	4.24	0.46	4.80	0.38	4.15	0.39
5:PC	Yes	3.67	0.57	3.67	0.57	4.30	0.42	4.30	0.42
6:NC	No	4.37	0.39	4.08	0.30	4.71	0.38	4.54	0.24

		d28				d35
TRT¹	Anticoccidial	Log OPG total		Log OPG E. maxima		Log OPG total		Log OPG E. maxima²
		Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD

1	No	3.80	0.44	3.40	0.53	1.10	1.21	0.39	0.95
2	No	4.13	0.43	3.53	0.32	1.36	1.49	0.81	1.25
3	No	3.86	0.58	2.85	1.47	0.93	1.44	0.44	1.08
4	No	3.76	0.27	3.05	0.48	1.12	1.24	1.12	1.24
5:PC	Yes	2.53	0.43	2.53	0.43	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
6:NC	No	2.73	1.38	1.47	1.64	2.69	0.46	1.53	1.21

TRT1-4: Eimeria infected and subjected to diet treatments 1-4; TRT5:PC: ’positive’ control group 5 (Eimeria infected/treated with anticoccidial); TRT6:NC: negative control group 6 (Eimeria infected/basal diet no additives).

The log OPG total includes all oocysts (E. acervulina, E. maxima and E. tenella). The log OPG E. maxima is based on counts of the subset of oocysts in the sample with visibly larger oocysts, recognizable as E. maxima oocysts specifically. For total OPG (all Eimeria spp. combined), as well as for E. maxima, the statistical model with Day and Day x Treatment was chosen to obtain estimates to compare outcomes for the treatments per day (Supplementary Table 3).