Fig. 7: Pathology ‘end score’. | npj Vaccines

Fig. 7: Pathology ‘end score’.

From: H7N9 influenza split vaccine with SWE oil-in-water adjuvant greatly enhances cross-reactive humoral immunity and protection against severe pneumonia in ferrets

Fig. 7

The end score is an overall pathology score, which is determined based on the amount of tissue affected, the degree of inflammation and the amount of damage in the left caudal and cranial lung lobe. The scores range from 0 (no aberrations) to 5 (severely affected). Statistical analysis was performed using an adapted version of the Mann–Whitney test for ordinal data with a small sample size: *p < 0.05; **p < 0.01 compared with the placebo group.

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