Role of anti-Giardia recombinant cyst wall protein IgG polyclonal antibodies in diagnosis and protection

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Table 5 parasitological examination of stool and intestinal wash samples

Groups	No. of cysts in stool samples		No. of trophozoites in intestinal wash
Groups	m ± SD	%PR	m ± SD	%PR
Group I	0	0	0	0
Group II	4352.61 ± 89.74	0	36.47 ± 6.9	0
Group III	571.11 ± 5.6^a	86.87%	7.21 ± 1.8^a	80.23
Group IV	32.24 ± 1.2^b	99.25%	0^b	100%

^arepresents significance when compared to group II and
^brepresents significance when compared to group III. Group I: healthy control mice, group II: G. duodenalis infected unprotected mice, group III: G. duodenalis infected mice protected with intraperitoneal injection with 100 μl of purified pAb (1/100 µg/ml) and group IV: G. duodenalis infected mice protected with intraperitoneal injection with 100 μl of purified pAb (1/200 µg/ml)