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. 2016 Nov 3;9(1):34. doi: 10.1186/s40413-016-0124-1

Table 1.

Proportions of children producing cytokines in spontaneous and SEB-stimulated peripheral blood leukocyte cultures by immunological phenotype

Cytokines Overall % (N = 310)
Spontaneous immune phenotype
Low Response % (N = 251) High Response % (N = 59)
Adaptive
 IL-17 7.7 7.2 9.8
 IFN-γ 30.6 26.7 46.0
 IL-10 17.1 12.8 34.1
 IL-13 60.0 53.3 86.4
 IL-5 54.8 51.7 67.2
Innate
 IL-6 15.5 0 76.2
 IL-10 12.6 3.4 48.4
 IL-8 41.6 27.3 97.6
 TNF-α 32.6 19.8 82.7
SEB-stimulation immune phenotype
Low response % Modified Th2 response %
Adaptive
 IL-17 49.8 42.8 57.0
 IFN-γ 52.6 46.7 58.6
 IL-10 53.2 28.2 78.6
 IL-13 52.6 14.4 91.3
 IL-5 50.3 17.3 83.8

Shown are conditional probabilities estimated by latent class analysis for each of the two phenotypes. Entropy for spontaneous and SEB-stimulated was 0.895 and 0.701, respectively. Proportions of children producing low vs. high response phenotypes for spontaneous were 79.7 vs. 20.3 %, and for low vs. modified Th2 response for SEB-stimulation were 50.4 vs. 49.6 %