Table 2 Mean temperature and percentage and absolute number of infected neutrophils (± SD) in 8 E. phagocytophila infected lambs at different hours after oxytetracycline treatment, and in 2 untreated control lambs. The lambs were given either long-acting oxytetracycline or 5 days short-acting oxytetracycline.
0 hour | 2 hours | 6 hours | 24 hours | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Treated | Control | Treated | Control | Treated | Control | Treated | Control | |
Temperature (°C) | 41.23 | 41.40 | 41.33 | 41.55 | 40.53 | 41.60 | 39.11 | 41.40 |
± 0.198 | ± 0.100 | ± 0.254 | ± 0.150 | ± 0.299 | ± 0.200 | ± 0.417 | ± 0.200 | |
% infected neutrophils | 56.6 | 52.5 | 38.1 | 49.5 | 34.4 | 54.0 | 12.9 | 46.5 |
± 4.24 | ± 4.50 | ± 3.79 | ± 8.50 | ± 3.50 | ± 2.00 | ± 2.47 | ± 7.00 | |
Number of infected | 1.58 | 1.55 | 1.04 | 1.53 | 1.06 | 1.71 | 0.33 | 1.96 |
Neutrophils (109 cells/l) | ± 0.451 | ± 0.410 | ± 0.366 | ± 0.280 | ± 0.357 | ± 0.535 | ± 0.131 | ± 0.100 |