Review Article
Serum Tumor Necrosis Factor-α and Interferon-γ Levels in Pediatric Mycoplasma pneumoniae Pneumonia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Table 1
Characteristics of studies included in the meta-analysis.
| Author/year of publication | Country | Plasma cytokines assay method | Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia group | Control group | Total N | Source of pneumonia type | TNFα (pg/ml) | IFNγ (pg/ml) | Total N | Source of control | TNFα (pg/ml) | IFNγ (pg/ml) |
| Che et al. [23] (1) | China | Radioimmunoassay | 30 | MPP | 497.19 ± 113.90 | — | 25 | Healthy | 161.40 ± 83.51 | — | Che et al. [23] (2) | China | Radioimmunoassay | 20 | RMPP | 520.42 ± 67.90 | — | 10 | NRMPP | 280.12 ± 26.72 | — | Pan et al. [24] | China | ELISA | 40 | MPP | — | 99.43 ± 13.18 | 40 | Healthy | — | 86.23 ± 6.31 | Teng [14] | China | ELISA | 44 | MPP | 29.22 ± 1.26 | — | 36 | Healthy | 7.98 ± 2.30 | — | Qiao et al. [15] | China | ELISA | 30 | MPP | 20.35 ± 7.63 | — | 20 | Healthy | 10.42 ± 2.64 | — | Chen et al. [25] | China | ELISA | 32 | MPP | 153.38 ± 208.34 | 490 ± 400 | 18 | Healthy | 38.19 ± 19.75 | 350 ± 150 | Wang et al. [26] | China | ELISA | 76 | RMPP | 114.5 ± 112.8 | 376.9 ± 296 | 26 | NRMPP | 43 ± 28 | 180 ± 154 | He et al. [27] | China | ELISA | 38 | MPP | 88.37 ± 14.48 | — | 25 | Healthy | 49.36 ± 16.78 | — | Ye et al. [28] | China | Flow cytometry | 680 | MPP with acute phase | — | 10.07 ± 3.18 | 50 | Healthy | — | 8.83 ± 2.03 | Zhang et al. [29] | China | Flow cytometry | 145 | RMPP | 3.0 ± 0.47 | 16.3 ± 6.8 | 489 | NRMPP | 2.9 ± 0.35 | 7.9 ± 1.27 | Fan et al. [20] | China | ELISA | 84 | MPP | 22.4 ± 0.88 | 12.45 ± 0.8 | 30 | Healthy | 10.71 ± 1.90 | 23.44 ± 4.79 | Li et al. [21] | China | Flow cytometry | 526 | MPP | 3.6 ± 22.1 | 20.4 ± 25.9 | 30 | Healthy | 2.2 ± 0.45 | 4.8 ± 1.13 | Zhou and Ye [30] | China | Flow cytometry | 182 | MPP | 2.8 ± 0.73 | 8.5 ± 22.0 | 180 | Healthy | 2.2 ± 0.22 | 4.7 ± 0.67 |
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RMPP: refractory Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia; NRMPP: nonrefractory Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia.
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