Table 2.

Correlations between cytokine and chemokine concentrations in peripheral blood and S. mansoni egg counts (epg), as determined in individuals by the Kato-Katz method (>4 epg).

>4 epg*
Cytokines and chemokines	Correlation coefficient
	r2	pa-value
IL-1β	0.32	0.006**
IL-6	0.002	−0.98
TNF-α	0.36	0.002**
IL-27	0.2	0.07
CXCL10	−0.004	0.97
IL17A	0.13	0.26
IL-10	−0.13	0.26
IL-5	−0.04	0.7
IL-13	0.08	0.52
IL-33	0.15	0.25
CCL11	−0.12	0.33
CCL17	0.11	0.35
CCL5	−0.028	0.83
CCL5	0.07	0.59

^*epg, eggs per gram of feces;

^aSpearman's rank test with significance of ^*p ≤ 0.05. Bold values indicate significant correlations between cytokine/chemokine concentrations and egg counts (

^**p < 0.01).