Cytokine responses to Schistosoma haematobium in a Zimbabwean population: contrasting profiles for IFN-γ, IL-4, IL-5 and IL-10 with age

Table 3 Relationships between cytokine pairs and between cytokines and infection intensity

	Infection intensity	IFN-γ	IL-4	IL-5
Infection intensity	-
IFN-γ	-0.003	-
IL-4	-0.039	0.287**	-
IL-5	0.025	0.352**	0.494**
IL-10	0.197**	0.040	0.093	-0.169**

The statistics are from a one tailed non parametric Spearman test. This analysis determined whether the relationships in Figure 3 and Figure 4 are significant. ** represents correlations were p = 0.01.

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