. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Mar 1.

Published in final edited form as: Cytokine. 2008 Feb 20;41(3):204–208. doi: 10.1016/j.cyto.2007.12.008

TABLE 2.

Serum cytokine and chemokine levels in children with cerebral malaria (CM) who survived compared to those who died.

Cytokine	Survivors N=73 Median (range), pg/ml	Died N=4 Median (range), pg/ml	P^a
G-CSF	117 (8 – 3071)	708 (312 – 18,037)	0.02
IL-1ra	10,355 (161 – 120,669)	65,757 (30,941 – 120,669)	0.02
IL-1ra: IL-1β	4,059 (9 – 120,669)	36,527 (639 – 89,399)	NS
IL-8	62 (1 – 844)	76 (56 – 9,674)	NS
MCP-1	216 (0 –3,597)	1,275 (214 – 14,253)	0.03

Wilcoxon rank-sum test.

IL-1ra: IL-1β ratio substitutes a value of 1 pg/ml for all values of IL-1β=0.

NS = not significant (P>0.05).