Table 1.

Concentrations of 17 serum cytokines in 145 children at the initial visit for AOM

	Serum samples with > 0.02 pg/ml
Cytokine	No. Samples (%)*	Mean ± S.D.	Median (pg/ml)	Range (min – max)
MIP-1β	145 (100)	76.8 ± 53.7	62.26	10.1 – 290.6
MCP-1	144 (99)	48.3 ± 41.3	40.40	0.18 – 338.2
IL-6	129 (89)	173.4 ± 413.2	63.91	0.34 – 4035.4
IL-5	96 (66)	5.8 ± 47	0.78	0.03 – 461.1
IL-7	96 (66)	6.8 ± 34.3	3.05	0.16 – 338.7
IL-10	81 (56)	56.4 ± 426.2	2.70	0.07 – 3841
IL-13	75 (52)	7.9 ± 42.4	1.90	0.04 – 368.7
IL-8	62 (43)	5.6 ± 18.9	2.63	0.03 – 150.5
IL-1β	50 (34)	5.6 ± 13.9	1.25	0.24 – 88.6
TNF-α	48 (33)	13 ± 26.9	2.28	0.42 – 123.1
IFN-γ	30 (21)	83.2 ± 122.9	21.46	0.36 – 410.6
GM-CSF	27 (19)	473.5 ± 1059.5	161.60	7.5 – 5472.3
IL-4	25 (17)	111.8 ± 198.8	24.16	1.3 – 760.4
G-CSF	19 (13)	73.4 ± 87.2	37.01	0.56 – 278.7
IL-2	16 (11)	71 ± 98.4	30.17	0.23 – 390
IL-17	3 (2)	34 ± 56.6	1.84	0.95 – 99.4
IL-12	2 (1)	194 ± 259.5	194.03	10.6 – 377.5

^*Figures in parenthesis are percent samples in detectable range out the total 145 samples;

The lowest limit of detection was 0.02 pg/ml, samples with results below this level are not shown above;

S.D. = standard deviation