Figure 2. Correlations between baseline inflammatory markers and baseline whole blood counts.

(A) Spearman’s correlations between absolute whole blood counts (monocytes, total white blood cells, neutrophils, lymphocytes, eosinophils, basophils, platelets, red blood cells, and hemoglobin) and circulating inflammatory markers at baseline (before BCG vaccination). Positive correlations are depicted in red, negative correlations in blue (n = 302). Spearman’s correlations between whole blood neutrophil counts and circulating oncostatin M (OSM) (B), and between whole blood monocyte counts and circulating IL-6 (C) are shown as examples of positive correlations (n = 300).