Table 1.
Patients' characteristics grouped by methodology. Y: yes; N: no; U: unknown.
| Sample size | Eosinophilic infiltrate | Asthma | Respiratory allergies | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Y | N | U | Y | N | U | Y | N | U | ||
| Microarray | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 0 |
| qPCR | 13 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 12 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 0 |
| Western blot | 15 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 5 |
| Immunohistochemistry | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 |
| Flow cytometry | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 0 |
| qPCR (healthy) | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||