Table 2.
Comparison of the cytokines/chemokines expression levels between MERS-CoV infected patients and healthy non-infected group.
| Cytokines/ chemokines |
MERS-CoV infected patients (n = 39) |
Healthy non-infected group (n = 30) |
p-value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mean concentrations pg/ml (±SD) | Mean concentrations pg/ml (±SD) | ||
| IL-1α | 1148.7 (688.2) | 18.7 (3.8) | 0.001 |
| IL-1β | 1230.8 (580.4) | 23.2 (4.4) | 0.001 |
| IL-2 | 20.7 (20.5) | 20.5 (18.4) | 0.9666 |
| IL-4 | 13 (8.5) | 12.5 (9.1) | 0.8150 |
| IL-6 | 20.2 (28.8) | 11 (8.6) | 0.0957 |
| IL-8 | 1956.4 (695.8) | 18.9 (1.1) | 0.001 |
| IL-10 | 9.2 (1.1) | 8.5 (2.7) | 0.1461 |
| IL-12 | 13.7 (6.3) | 11.2 (6.8) | 0.1191 |
| IL-17A | 19.3 (15.5) | 15.5 (15.9) | 0.3217 |
| IFN-γ | 32.4 (53.9) | 12.3 (11.1) | 0.0488 |
| TNF-α | 20.7 (32.8) | 11.5 (11.8) | 0.1481 |
| GM-CSF | 23.3 (25.5) | 20.1 (25.1) | 0.6046 |