Table 2: Average percentage parasitaemia obtained from the mice in each treatment group.

 

 

 

Treatment with Anacardium occidentale

 

 

 PARASITAEMIA

 

 

 

 

Time interval (Hours)

 

 

 

Before treatment

 

24 hours

 

48 hours

 

72 hours

 

96 hours

 

400 mg/kg

 

3.45 ± 1.72a

 

2.18 ± 0.14a

 

2.03 ± 0.68a

 

1.68 ± 0.36ab

 

1.58 ± 0.36ab

 

600 mg/kg

 

5.43 ± 4.21a

 

2.12 ± 0.14a

 

2.03 ± 0.62a

 

1.91 ± 1.28ab

 

1.05 ± 0.56a

 

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

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