Table 2. Serum cytokine levels and CRP in the control group and patients with sepsis or intracranial infection.
| parameters | sepsis (n = 299) | intracranial infection (n = 43) | control (n = 33) | P valuea | P valueb | P valuec |
| IL-2 (pg/mL) | 2.7 (1.0→20.7) | 2.2(1.0→5.6) | 5.8 (2.7→7.8) | 0.14 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| IL-4 (pg/mL) | 2.9(0.9→15.4) | 2.45(1.1→4.7) | 2.7 (1.1→4.0) | 0.25 | 0.59 | 0.61 |
| IL-6 (pg/mL) | 33.7(1.6→1605.8) | 34.5(1.2→1472.3) | 4.1 (1.2→8.5) | 0.57 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| IL-10 (pg/mL) | 6.9(1.2→1783.2) | 9.2(1.8→162.3) | 2.4 (1.3→9.9) | 0.60 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| TNF-α (pg/mL) | 2.5(1.0→319.4) | 2.6(1.0→25.2) | 2.3 (1.1→3.1) | 0.54 | 0.04 | 0.41 |
| INF-γ (pg/mL) | 8.0(1.4→788.6) | 5.7(1.3→41.8) | 4.6 (3.3→7.8) | 0.05 | 0.00 | 0.12 |
| CRP (mg/L) | 10.0(1.0→160.0) | 39.0(3.0→117.0) | 2.0 (1.0→3.1) | 0.03 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
a
P value of sepsis group compare with intracranial infection group; bP value of sepsis group compare with normal control group; cP value of intracranial infection group compare with normal control group. Range and median values are represented for each group.