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. 2002 May;9(3):738.

Influence of Specimen Age and Use of Different Negative Controls in Determination of Intracytoplasmic Levels of Cytokines after Whole-Blood Culture Assay

Christian Schultz 1, Christina Rott 1, Petra Temming 1, Julia von Puttkammer 1, Peter Bucsky 1
PMCID: PMC120009

Volume 9, no. 2, p. 295-298, 2002. Page 297, column 1: line 7 from bottom and below should read as follows. “The greatest mean difference was seen for IL-8, with a 44.9% higher amount of IL-8 positive monocytes (95% CI, 33.7% to 56%; P < 0.0001) compared to the purified antibody-blocking control, followed by a 29% higher amount of IL-6-positive cells (95% CI, 16.7% to 41.3%; P < 0.0001), a 19.4% higher amount of IFN-γ-positive cells (95% CI, 14.3% to 24.6%; P < 0.0001), and a 14.5% higher amount of IL-2 positive cells (95% CI, 10.7% to 18.2%; P < 0.0001).”

Page 297, column 2: line 10 from bottom and below should read as follows. “ … then the number of IL-6 positive monocytes was 69.3% higher (95% CI, 37.8% to 100.7%; P < 0.0001) than that obtained with the purified antibody-blocking control, followed by a 26.9% higher amount of IFN-λ-positive lymphocytes (95% CI, 20.9% to 32.8%; P < 0.0001) and a 18.8% higher amount of IL-2-positive lymphocytes (95% CI, 13.7% to 24%; P < 0.0001). In the determination of IL-8, 6 values were below and 14 values above those of the purified antibody-blocking control (18.7%; 95% CI, 14.5% to 22.9%; P < 0.05).”


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