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Dosage for eleven antibiotics tested against a gregarine pathogen infecting Romalea microptera grasshoppers. |
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| Mean dose per individual grasshopper |
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| Treatment group |
Dose offered (mg/day) |
Dose consumed (mg/day) ± SE* |
Cumulative dose consumed (mg/19 day) ± SE |
Mean dose (mg/gram fresh mass/day)† |
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| Control |
None‡ |
None‡ |
None‡ |
None‡ |
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| Albendazole |
1.00 |
0.84 ± 0.16 |
15.95 ± 1.24 |
0.23 |
| Ampicillin |
5.00 |
3.77 ± 1.03 |
71.65 ± 7.44 |
1.05 |
| Chloramphenicol |
5.52 |
4.19 ± 0.51 |
79.75 ± 4.96 |
1.17 |
| Fumagilin-B |
0.10 |
0.10 ± 0.00 |
1.94 ± 0.03 |
0.03 |
| Griseofulvin |
5.52 |
4.66 ± 1.01 |
88.66 ± 11.08 |
1.30 |
| Metronidazole |
0.10 |
0.06 ± 0.03 |
1.18 ± 0.25 |
0.02 |
| Quinine |
2.96 |
2.47 ± 0.34 |
47.02 ± 6.43 |
0.69 |
| Streptomycin |
5.00 |
4.59 ± 0.48 |
87.25 ± 3.50 |
1.28 |
| Sulfadimethoxine |
0.38 |
0.10 ± 0.03 |
1.88 ± 0.74 |
0.03 |
| Tetracycline |
5.26 |
4.73 ± 0.49 |
89.93 ± 4.69 |
1.32 |
| Thiabendazole |
0.68 |
0.53 ± 0.16 |
10.15 ± 1.18 |
0.15 |
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*Not all individuals consumed a full dose each day. † [Mean dose consumed/animal/day]/average mass of a typical male ‡The Control group was given carrot leaf juice only. | ||||
Johny et al. Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials 2007 6:15 doi:10.1186/1476-0711-6-15 |
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