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. 2015 Aug 6;8(1):22. doi: 10.1186/s40413-015-0071-2

Table 4.

Associations between area of residence and cytokine production by superantigen (SEB)- stimulated peripheral blood leukocytes

Cytokines Model 1 Model 2 Model 3
Fold-change Fold-change Fold-change
(95%CI) (95%CI) (95%CI)
IL-10 0.83 (0.69;1.01) 1.27 (0.96;1.69) 1.30 (0.97;1.75)
IL-17 0.96 (0.83;1.11) 1.19 (0.95;1.47) 1.19 (0.95;1.49)
IFN-γ 0.84 (0.60;1.18) 0.82 (0.48;1.41) 0.82 (0.47;1.42)
IL-13 0.85 (0.74;0.97) 1.14 (0.92;1.41) 1.20 (0.96;1.50)
IL-5 0.80 (0.67;0.95) 0.92 (0.71;1.19) 1.00 (0.76;1.31)

Fold-changes represent ratios of geometric means using linear regression and are adjusted for different sets of variables as follows: Model 1 - age and sex

Model 2 - age, sex, Giardia, maternal education and bathroom; Model 3 - age, sex, worm infection (Ascaris and or Trichuris), maternal education and bathroom

95 % CI – 95 % confidence intervals

SEB- Staphylococcus enterotoxin B