TABLE 2.

Plasma concentrations of cytokines in PUUV-infected females and males during the convalescent phase of HFRS

Cytokine	Mean plasma concn ± SD (pg/ml) in:		P valuea
	Females (n = 20)	Males (n = 19)
IL-1β	3.72 ± 9.98	1.68 ± 1.88	0.42
IL-1RA	430 ± 509	522 ± 577	0.57
IL-2	17.3 ± 52.6	6.28 ± 11.2	0.89
IL-4	6.38 ± 20.3	0.89 ± 1.85	0.90
IL-5	6.55 ± 20.5	2.04 ± 1.81	0.93
IL-6	19.5 ± 32.4	11.4 ± 19.7	0.80
IL-7	7.38 ± 17.6	2.41 ± 0.75	0.64
IL-8	19.0 ± 23.2	18.2 ± 18.9	0.88
IL-9	191 ± 243	351 ± 693	0.21
IL-10	40.6 ± 115	18.4 ± 23.9	0.29
IL-12 (p70)	24.2 ± 83.3	6.48 ± 14.7	0.59
IL-13	5.75 ± 22.6	0.79 ± 1.34	0.73
IL-15	3.29 ± 10.9	1.22 ± 3.19	0.63
IL-17	19.0 ± 33.8	6.23 ± 15.5	0.38
Eotaxin	60.1 ± 68.4	52.2 ± 32.3	0.73
FGF-2	46.4 ± 49.9	30.1 ± 40.3	0.37
G-CSF	16.8 ± 25.1	10.9 ± 15.9	0.47
GM-CSF	112 ± 273	32.0 ± 51.7	0.75
IFN-γ	69.3 ± 226	25.0 ± 30.4	0.87
IP-10	3,610 ± 5,490	2,670 ± 3,550	0.19
MCP-1	198 ± 187	229 ± 297	0.69
MIP-1α	1.45 ± 3.98	0.09 ± 0.41	0.57
MIP-1β	89.5 ± 42.2	82.3 ± 49.1	0.48
PDGF-BB	391 ± 427	405 ± 376	0.59
RANTES	9,790 ± 16,500	7,420 ± 10,500	0.75
TNF	32.8 ± 110	5.51 ± 10.4	0.47
VEGF	37.1 ± 23.3	37.1 ± 24.3	0.94

^aP values were determined with the Mann-Whitney U test.