Table 3.

Levels of seminal pro-inflammatory cytokines in non-Chlamydia trachomatis (CT)-infected and CT-infected patients

Cytokine (pg/ml)	Non CT-infected (n = 71)	CT-infected (n = 33)	Significance p
IFN-γ	494 (0-3394)	154 (0-7406)	0.320
IL-4	33.75 (0-212.5)	26.25 (0-91.25)	0.052
IL-1β	0 (0-1304)	184.66 (0-3985.33)	0.001
IL-6	0 (0-2994)	87.8 (0-1042.8)	0.001
TNF-α	0 (0-108.5)	0 (0-43.5)	0.687
IL-8	342.35 (0-31950)	364.85 (0-14817.1)	0.724
IL-10	0 (0-1177)	0	0.202

IFN-γ – interferon-γ, IL-4 – interleukin-4, IL-1β – interleukin-1β, IL-6 – interleukin-6, TNF-α – tumor necrosis factor-α, IL-8 – interleukin-8. Values are the median (range). Significance refers to Mann-Whitney U test for difference between both groups, the significance level is p ≤ 0.05.