Multiplex Analysis of Pro- or Anti-Inflammatory Serum Cytokines and Chemokines in relation to Gender and Age among Tanzanian Tuberculous Lymphadenitis Patients

Table 4

Relationship between the serum levels of cytokines in children with tuberculous lymphadenitis () based on Spearman’s rank correlation. The values shown are the correlation coefficients.

	TNF-	GM-CSF	IL-1	IL-2	IL-4	IL-5	IL-6	IL-8	IL-10	IL-12	IL-15
IFN-	.566	.716	.369	−.244	.389	.274	.440	.497	.151	−.200	−.111
TNF-		.802	.611	.028	.213	.303	.528	.648	.108	−.047	.291
GM-CSF			.726	.039	.442	.527	.758	.875	.026	−.191	.154
IL-1				.336	.490	.646	.596	.671	−.176	−.114	.424
IL-2					−.226	−.039	.122	.150	−.133	.256	.448
IL-4						.745	.341	.376	.008	−.391	−.076
IL-5							.401	.469	.070	−.538	−.038
IL-6								.842	−.190	−.282	.072
IL-8									−.068	−.115	.194
IL-10										−.259	−.474
IL-12											.530

Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed). Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed).