Table 2.

Serum cytokine levels in the adult and paediatric patients with tuberculous lymphadenitis and healthy controls.

Cytokine (pg/mL)	Adult patients (n = 61) Median (range)	Healthy controls (n = 23) Median (range)	P value∗	Pediatric patients (n = 25) Median (range)	P value∗∗
IFN-γ	0.0 (0–42.8)	0.0 (0–1.5)	0.001	0.0 (0–40.4)	0.268
TNF-α	8.4 (0–352.5)	2.5 (0–51.7)	0.005	3.2 (0–33.4)	0.015
GM-CSF	35.2 (0–506.9)	0.0 (0–379.2)	0.007	0.0 (0–147.9)	0.023
IL-1β	48.7 (0–6305.4)	0.0 (0–933.2)	0.004	4.0 (0–610.5)	0.338
IL-2	0.0 (0–28.2)	0.3 (0–16.3)	0.038	1.0 (0–105.6)	0.003
IL-4	0.0 (0–18.5)	0.0 (0–4.3)	0.002	0.0 (0–5.4)	0.208
IL-5	1.0 (0–10.0)	0.5 (0–12.5)	0.559	0.0 (0–1.5)	0.001
IL-6	47.4 (0–25781.5)	0.0 (0–9355.1)	0.000	44.1 (0–587.4)	0.244
IL-8	370.4 (0–386578.0)	65.9 (1.6–2888.2)	0.071	68.2 (0–3551.4)	0.195
IL-10	0.0 (0–29.3)	0.0 (0–36.2)	0.560	0.0 (0–9.9)	0.233
IL-12	0.0 (0–37.8)	2.7 (0–15.3)	0.000	0.0 (0–9.5)	0.701
IL-15	0.0 (0–61.4)	0.0 (0–12.7)	0.812	0.6 (0–53.3)	0.385
IL-17	0.0 (0–133.7)	0	0.282	0	0.262

^∗ P value for difference between adult patients and healthy controls and ^∗∗ P value for difference between adult and pediatric patients.