Effects of herbal nutraceuticals and/or zinc against Haemonchus contortus in lambs experimentally infected

BMC Veterinary Research

Table 4 Hematological parameters of lambs infected with H. contortus in the experimental groups

Parameter	Day	C	Hmix	Zn	Hmix+Zn	SD	Significance of effects
							Treatment	Time	Treatment × time
RBC	7	9.89	11.0	10.8	10.3	0.992	***	***	NS
(T/L)	35	5.94	6.34	6.98	6.31	0.766
	49	6.23	7.14	8.07	7.21	0.725
	70	7.52	8.56	9.18	8.65	1.101
HGB	7	97.1	103.0	97.4	97.8	11.13	***	***	NS
(g/L)	35	58.0	64.6	72.3	61.8	10.40
	49	58.2	76.8	80.2	69.2	8.09
	70	72.0	87.1	90.0	81.8	9.981
HCT	7	0.213	0.220	0.225	0.224	0.017	***	***	NS
(L/L)	35	0.141	0.161	0.182	0.157	0.022
	49	0.138	0.186	0.195	0.172	0.019
	70	0.168	0.206	0.207	0.199	0.019
WBC	7	8.3	10.2	7.2	8.1	3.36	*	NS	NS
(g/L)	35	6.1	9.9	6.9	8.7	2.40
	49	7.2	8.4	5.9	6.6	1.89
	70	7.1	7.5	6.7	7.4	1.97
LYM	7	2.0	2.6	2.1	2.8	1.24	NS	NS	NS
(g/L)	35	2.0	3.5	1.4	2.3	1.23
	49	2.3	3.1	2.3	1.8	1.13
	70	2.3	2.7	3.1	2.7	1.23
MON	7	2.4	2.2	1.6	2.5	0.76	NS	NS	NS
(g/L)	35	1.8	1.9	2.5	1.9	0.74
	49	1.9	1.7	1.8	2.1	0.70
	70	2.0	1.9	1.6	1.8	0.62
EOS	7	0.224	0.092	0.036	0.183	0.2185	NS	NS	NS
(g/L)	35	0.101	0.034	0.141	0.048	0.1075
	49	0.085	0.069	0.072	0.076	0.0378
	70	0.297	0.117	0.178	0.165	0.1937
BAS	7	0.400	0.576	0.377	0.293	0.3002	NS	NS	NS
(g/L)	35	0.347	0.334	0.482	0.328	0.1963
	49	0.290	0.380	0.270	0.343	0.2675
	70	0.399	0.395	0.290	0.267	0.2675

C control, Hmix Herbmix, Zn Zn-glycinate, Hmix + Zn Herbmix and Zn-glycinate, RBC red blood cells, HGB hemoglobin, HCT hematocrit,
WBC total leukocytes, LYM lymphocytes, MON monocytes, EOS eosinophils, BAS basophils, NS not significant
* P < 0.05, ** P < 0.01, *** P < 0.001

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