Figure 2.

Plasma inflammatory cytokine concentrations are associated with concurrent plasma viral loads in women with acute HIV-1 infection. Only cytokines that correlated significantly with viral load before adjustment for multiple comparisons are represented (p-values and Spearman rho values below heat map). Women are ranked according to acute infection viral load. Relative acute infection plasma cytokine concentrations of study participants are shown as a heat map, with each row representing the cytokine concentrations in an individual woman and falling alongside her viral load. For each particular cytokine, the concentrations found in this group of women were ranked and assigned an appropriate colour ranging from white (lowest concentration) to red (highest concentration). Repeated values were assigned the same rank and hence colour. IP-10, TNF-α, IL-1α, IL-1β, IFN-γ and IL-10 correlated with viral load. PID: Patient Identity Number. # IP-10 and TNF-α remained significantly correlated with viral load following adjustment for multiple comparisons. * Not done