Table 6.

Results of interdependence analysis among the immunological summary scores

Immune response		Th2 response		T-Reg response
	Measure	ANTI	MITO	ANTI	MITO	NC
Th1 response	ANTI	γ = 0.06, P = 0.248	γ = 0.25*, P < 0.001	γ = 0.33*, P = 0.011	γ = 0.14, P = 0.504	γ = 0.11, P = 0.302
	MITO	γ = -0.01, P = 0.723	γ = 0.59**, P < 0.001	γ = 0.42*, P < 0.001	γ = 0.46*, P < 0.001	γ = 0.26*, P = 0.021
Th2 response	ANTI	-	-	γ = -0.02, P = 0.509	γ = -0.13, P = 0.458	γ = 0.30*, P = 0.008
	MITO	-	-	γ = 0.36*, P < 0.001	γ = 0.26*, P < 0.001	γ = 0.10, P = 0.280
Th1/Th2 balance	ANTI	-	-	γ = 0.14, P = 0.030	γ = -0.01, P = 0.437	γ = 0.20, P = 0.387
	MITO	-	-	γ = 0.39*, P < 0.001	γ = 0.17, P < 0.001	γ = 0.22, P = 0.313

ANTI: Maximum immune response observed in cell cultures stimulated by B. tropicalis or D. pteronyssinus, MITO: response in cell cultures stimulated by pokeweed mitogen, γ: Goodman and Kruskal’s γ, P: P-value of chi-square test of independence, significant associations 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