Table 4.

Summary of result of intercytokine analysis using data collected from 818 children in SCAALA Salvador

Measure	Cytokine	IL-5	IL-13	IL-10
ANTI	IFN-γ	γ = -0.36*, P = 0.669	γ = 0.12, P = 0.324	γ = 0.33*, P = 0.011
	IL-5		γ = 0.58**, P = 0.001	γ = 0.06, P = 0.242
	IL-13			γ = -0.04, P = 0.648
MITO	IFN-γ	γ = 0.53**, P < 0.001	γ = 0.65**, P < 0.001	γ = 0.46*, P < 0.001
	IL-5		γ = 0.62**, P < 0.001	γ = 0.27*, P < 0.001
	IL-13			γ = 0.19, P = 0.008
NC	IFN-γ	γ = 0.18, P = 445	γ = 0.09, P = 0.095	γ = 0.04, P = 0.500
	IL-5		γ = -0.22, P = 0.451	γ = -0.39*, P = 0.620
	IL-13			γ = 0.07, P = 0.484

ANTI: Maximum immune response observed in cell cultures stimulated by B. tropicalis or D. pteronyssinus, MITO: response in cell cultures stimulated by pokeweed mitogen, NC: response in non-stimulated cell cultures; γ: Goodman and Kruskal’s γ, P: P-value of chi-square test of independence, significant associations are shown in bold; Strength of association: * … weak (0.25 < |γ| < =0.5), ** … moderate (0.50 < |γ| < =0.75)

*** … strong (0.75 < |γ| < =1); Significant estimates (P<0.05) are shown in bold