Table 1.

Admission values of four evaluated cytokines in three pneumonia etiology groups.

Cytokinea	Bacterial groupb	Mixed groupc	Viral groupd	p-value
	(BG)	(MG)	(VG)
	n = 21	n = 19	n = 5
IL-5	10.1 (7.1–18.9)	7.6 (5.8–11.7)	18.7 (13.8–45.1)	0.188
IL-6	187.1 (48.9–1317.5)	353.9 (68.3–2774.3)	174.1 (52.5–595.1)	0.524
TNF-α	96.1 (56.1–147.8)	71.0 (57.4–154.4)	94.2 (80.7–193.7)	0.546
IP-10	2226.5 (562.3–15959.9)	6767.3 (1707.1–22754.9)	363.2 (353.9–193.7)	0.509

^aAll values are presented pg/ml, IL = interleukin, TNF-α = tumor necrosis factor alfa, IP-10 = interferon gamma induced protein 10.

^bBacterial group (BG) consisted of following bacteriae: Streptococcus pneumoniae; n = 15, Mycoplasma pneumoniae; n = 3, Staphylococcus aureus; n = 1, Escherichia coli; n = 1, Klebsiella pneumoniae and Mycoplasma pneumoniae; n = 1.

^cMixed group (MG): S.pneumoniae + rhinovirus; n = 7, S.pneumoniae + parainfluenzavirus 3; n = 1, S.pneumoniae + coronavirus; n = 1, S.pneumoniae + adenovirus; n = 1, S.pneumoniae + respiratory syncytial virus; n = 1, S.pneumoniae + enterovirus; n = 1, S.pneumoniae + enterovirus + adenovirus; n = 1, Pseudomonas aeruginosa + rhinovirus; n = 1, Haemophilus influenzae + Moraxella catharralis + rhinovirus; n = 1, S.aureus + rhinovirus; n = 1, H.influenzae + rhinovirus; n = 1, M.pneumoniae + rhinovirus; n = 1, M.pneumoniae + rhinovirus + adenovirus; n = 1.

^dViral group (VG): rhinovirus; n = 2, coronavirus; n = 1, adenovirus; n = 1, influenza A virus; n = 1 [3].