Table 3.

Relationship between the serum levels of cytokines in adult patients with tuberculous lymphadenitis (n = 61) based on Spearman's rank correlation. The values shown are the correlation coefficients.

	TNF-α	GM-CSF	IL-1β	IL-2	IL-4	IL-5	IL-6	IL-8	IL-10	IL-12	IL-15	IL-17
IFN-γ	.729∗∗	.741∗∗	.723∗∗	.058	.018	.252∗	.732∗∗	.551∗∗	.335∗∗	−.193	−.025	.178
TNF-α		.828∗∗	.724∗∗	.081	.055	.217	.674∗∗	.577∗∗	.315∗	−.035	.119	−.103
GM-CSF			.723∗∗	.062	−.012	.230	.794∗∗	.651∗∗	.210	−.063	.075	−.051
IL-1β				.213	.312∗	.287∗	.687∗∗	.539∗∗	.275∗	−.109	.208	.154
IL-2					.150	.275∗	.076	−.028	.181	.183	.454∗∗	.086
IL-4						.061	−.012	.068	.034	−.207	.037	.251
IL-5							.138	.261∗	.241	.022	.188	−.134
IL-6								.597∗∗	.066	−.038	−.050	.050
IL-8									.123	−.011	−.057	.076
IL-10										−.043	.068	.218
IL-12											.459∗∗	−.171
IL-15												.011

^∗∗Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed). ^∗Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed).