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. 2017 Mar 30;85(4):280–290. doi: 10.1111/sji.12532

Figure 5.

Figure 5

Effect of different acute respiratory infections in the cytokine/chemokine production. Viral and mixed (viral and bacterial) infections induced higher production of interleukin‐1 beta (IL‐1β), tumour necrosis factor‐alpha (TNF‐α), monocyte chemoattractant protein‐1 (MCP‐1) and regulated on activation normal T cell expressed and secreted factor (RANTES) than those observed in bacterial infection (A, B, E, F). High values of interleukins 4 and 5 (IL‐4 and IL‐5) were observed, but they remained similar in all types of infections (C, D). Viral (n = 21); bacterial (n = 11); mixed (n = 11); control (n = 10). These data were obtained from asthmatic and non‐asthmatic patients. Data were analysed using a nonparametric ANOVA (Kruskal–Wallis test) and Dunn's multiple comparisons test. Values were expressed as mean ± standard deviation.