Difference in Antibody Responses to Mycobacterium tuberculosis Antigens in Japanese Tuberculosis Patients Infected with the Beijing/Non-Beijing Genotype

Table 3

Correlation analysis.

	Anti-Ag85B IgG		Anti-TDM-M IgG		Anti-TDM-K IgG		Anti-Ag85A IgG		Anti-TBGL IgG IgG		Anti-TBGL IgA IgG		Anti-LAM IgG
Anti-Ag85B IgG			0.42		0.44		0.59		0.52		0.45		0.58
Anti-TDM-M IgG	0.42				0.99		0.36		0.80				0.77
Anti-TDM-K IgG	0.44		0.99						0.83				0.79
Anti-Ag85A IgG	0.59		0.36								0.37
Anti-TBGL IgG IgG	0.52		0.80		0.83								0.94
Anti-TBGL IgA IgG	0.45						0.37						0.60
Anti-LAM IgG	0.58		0.77		0.79				0.94		0.60

p values of Spearman’s rank correlation are expressed as follows: less than 0.05, less than 0.01, and less than 0.001.