Table 2.

Effect of the IL-6 -174 GC Polymorphism on Nosocomial Blood Stream Infections in African- American and Caucasian Infants

	African American				Caucasian
Organism	GG (n = 204)	GC (n = 27)	CC (n = 2)	P value	GG (n = 19)	GC (n = 32)	CC (n = 6)	P value
CONS	72 (35)	12 (44)	2 (100)	0.116	11 (58)	11 (34)	3 (50)	0.249
Non CONS	48 (24)	12 (44)	0	0.185	6 (21)	9 (28)	2 (33)	0.827
Fungal	22 (11)	7 (26)	0	0.071	1 (5)	1 (3)	2 (33)	0.027
Gram negative bacilli	16 (8)	1 (4)	0	0.683	3 (16)	5 (16)	0	0.578
Enterococcus sp.	5 (2)	2 (1)	0	0.354	1 (5)	1 (3)	0	0.817
Other	15 (7)	2 (1)	0	0.924	1 (5)	2 (6)	0	0.820

Numbers in parentheses represent percentages of patients with nosocomial blood stream infections