Table 1.

Summary of worms recovered from heart-lung complex of experimentally infected rats. Groups include a no-drug control, and treatments with pyrantel pamoate (11 mg/kg) at 0 h (immediate), 2-h, 4-h, 6-h, and 8-h post-L3 exposure.

Study group	Mean number of worms recovered	Standard deviations	Range of worms recovered
No drug (n=6)	13.83	3.49	9–19
0-h treatment (n=6)	7.33	1.75	5–10
2-h treatment (n=6)	8.67	8.38	2–24
2-h treatment (n=5)a	5.6	4.15	2–12
4-h treatment (n=6)	4.0	4.38	0–10
6-h treatment (n=6)	4.17	2.4	2–8
8-h treatment (n=6)	4.0	3.52	1–10

^aExcluding the outlier with 24 worms.