Table 2: Average percentage parasitaemia obtained from the mice in each treatment group.
Treatment with Anacardium occidentale |
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PARASITAEMIA |
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Time interval (Hours) |
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Before treatment |
24 hours |
48 hours |
72 hours |
96 hours |
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400 mg/kg |
3.45 ± 1.72a |
2.18 ± 0.14a |
2.03 ± 0.68a |
1.68 ± 0.36ab |
1.58 ± 0.36ab |
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600 mg/kg |
5.43 ± 4.21a |
2.12 ± 0.14a |
2.03 ± 0.62a |
1.91 ± 1.28ab |
1.05 ± 0.56a |
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800 mg/kg |
4.61 ± 2.37a |
2.41 ± 1.25a |
2.13 ± 1.03a |
1.64 ± 0.90ab |
0.89 ± 0.31a |
|
Chloroquine 10 mg/kg |
0.88 ± 0.44b |
0.03 ± 0.03a |
0.00 ± 0.00a |
0.00 ± 0.00a |
0.00 ± 0.00a |
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Infected untreated |
0.70 ± 0.25a |
5.35 ± 1.36b |
10.39 ± 7.76a |
4.56 ± 1.76ab |
9.50 ± 1.77b |
Superscripts a-b are means ± standard error represents 5 replicates. Mean values down the column with the same alphabet are not significantly different from each other at P > 0.05