Table 2 Mean values of the antibody titers in percent inhibition (PI) for one to ten serum dilutions of experimental animals along with time after initial vaccination.

From: Effects of binary ethyleneimine and formaldehyde inactivation methods on foot-and-mouth disease virus vaccine immune responses and kinetics

Experimental groups

Mean antibody titers with a 95% confidence interval

p value

Day 0

Day 7

Day 14

Day 21

Day 28

Day 42

Combination

25.47

(19.06–31.87)

58.56

(51.75–65.37)

84.71

(78.51–90.90)

95.02

(90.70–99.35)

91.38

(84.14–98.62)

88.98

(81.78–96.19)

0.006a

BEI

28.52

(22.12–34.92)

57.53

(50.72–64.35)

75.85

(69.66–82.04)

91.56

(87.24–95.88)

85.92

(78.68–93.16)

84.35

(77.15–91.56)

0.696b

FA

23.89

(17.49–30.30)

44.25

(37.53–50.97)

61.61

(55.42–67.80)

85.53

(81.21–89.85)

79.86

(72.62–87.10)

75.71

(68.50–82.92)

0.051c

Control

27.05

(20.65–33.45)

24.19

(17.38–31.01)

29.24

(23.04–35.43)

29.41

(25.09–33.73)

26.53

(19.29–33.77)

32.89

(25.68–40.09)

0.000d

  1. p value describes the results of Tukey’s post-hoc test, p < 0.05 indicate statistical significance.
  2. aCombination versus FA (highly significant).
  3. b BEI versus Combination (non- significant).
  4. cBEI versus FA (marginally non-significant).
  5. dControl versus all vaccinated groups (highly significant).
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