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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Aug 24.
Published in final edited form as: AIDS. 2010 Aug 24;24(13):2069–2074. doi: 10.1097/QAD.0b013e32833c323b

Table 2.

Comparison of cervical immune cell populations and soluble immune factors in cervicovaginal lavage in 18–24 year old women from Kisumu, Kenya and San Francisco, USA.

Variable Kisumu San Francisco
Median [IQR] Proportion [IQR] Median [IQR] Proportion [IQR] p-Value* p-Value
CD4+ 187 [31, 403] - 304 [200, 640] - 0.05 -
 CD4+/CD69+ 51.5 [11.5, 91.9] 15.7 [8.3, 56.7] 10 [6, 23] 3.6 [2.3, 6.5] 0.006 <0.00001
 CD4+/CCR5+ 119 [24, 253] 66.5 [57, 84.2] 205 [95, 321] 60.2 [43, 78] 0.15 0.23
 CD4+/CD69+/CCR5+ 43 [9, 94] 15.3 [6.7, 45.0] 9 [5, 21] 2.7 [1.9, 6.2] 0.01 <0.002
CD8+ 143 [38, 305] - 230 [142, 526] - 0.08 -
 CD8+/CD69+ 36 [8, 86.5] 25.8 [8.7, 59.6] 12 [6, 35] 5.1 [3.5, 9.6] 0.11 <0.0001
CD1a+ 134 [90, 330] - 320 [215, 616.5] - 0.03 -
 CD1a+/DC-SIGN+ 90 [69, 123] 66.7 [45.3, 84.6] 197 [79, 361] 65.4 [44.8, 82.4] 0.038 0.90
CD11c+ 267 [130, 791] - 1285 [279, 2705] - 0.01 -
 CD11c+/DC-SIGN+ 113 [80, 213] 56.7 [31.5, 71.7] 301 [118, 831] 44.5 [15, 57.4] 0.01 0.31
CD14+ 356 [121, 473] - 662 [249, 1067] - 0.05 -
 CD14+/DC-SIGN+ 167 [74, 342] 79.2 [62.3, 86.1] 221 [162, 647] 62.1 [30.1, 82.1] 0.20 0.85
Concentration pg/mL
SLPI 190 [96, 519] - 474 [206, 817] - 0.009
GM-CSF 0.06 [0.06, 0.3] - 0.6 [0.06, 1.3] - 0.004
IFN-γ 0.15 [0.06, 0.7] - 0.5 [0.2, 0.8] - 0.15
IL-2 0.2 [0.06, 0.7] - 0.06 [0.06, 0.2] - 0.02
IL-4 0.3 [0.06, 0.8] - 1.7 [0.06, 6.8] - 0.06
IL-6 10.8 [3.3, 33.9] - 17.3 [5.7, 27.7] - 0.5
IL-8 166 [85.5, 444] - 345 [146, 1,500] - 0.04
IL-10 0.4 [0.1, 2.1] - 0.3 [0.06, 307.1] - 0.59
IL-12 0.1 [0.06, 0.2] - 0.1 [0.06, 0.2] - 0.32
IL-13 0.06 [0.06, 0.4] - 0.08 [0.06, 0.4] - 0.54
IL-1β 0.2 [0.06, 1.1] - 1.0 [0.06, 12.0] - 0.08
TNF 0.1 [0.06, 0.7] - 0.06 [0.06, 0.4] - 0.75
*

p-Value represents comparison of number of cells between sites using the Wilcoxon Rank-Sum Test

p-Value represents comparison of proportion of cells between sites using negative binomial regression