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. 2005 Nov;142(2):347–353. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2249.2005.02917.x

Table 1.

Correlation between cytokine mRNA expression in infection, the duration of infection and the chlamydial load in individual infection episodes. Number of comparisons = 10.

Duration of infection Chlamydial load in infection


Cytokine Spearman's Rho P-value Spearman's Rho P-value
TNF-α 0·48 0·0120 0·32 0·108
IFN-γ 0·63 0·0005 0·52 0·0054
IL-1β 0·37 0·0154 0·26 0·188
IL-10 0·48 0·0109 0·33 0·090
IL-12p40 0·25 0·2026 0·12 0·552