TABLE 2.

Pro‐/anti‐inflammatory ratio

Ratio	Uninfected	Infected	p‐value
IL‐6/IL‐10	1,367	3,909	0,333
TNF‐α/IL‐10	0,244	3,858

Multiple t‐test ratio analysis was carried out between proinflammatory [interleukin (IL)‐6, tumor necrosis factor (TNF)‐α] and anti‐inflammatory (IL‐10) cytokines in asymptomatic Plasmodium falciparum‐infected and uninfected children. The means, standard error of the means (SEM) and n were 6.122 pg/ml, 2.541 and 117 versus 3.127 pg/ml, 1.579 and 142 for IL‐6; 6.064 pg/ml, 2.773 gp/ml and 117 versus 5.136 pg/m, 1.022 mg/ml and 149 for TNF‐α and 30.32 pg/m, 5.606 mg/ml and 119 versus 5.438 pg/m, 0.711 pg/m and 153 for IL‐10 in infected asymptomatic compared to uninfected children. The Mann–Whitney U‐test was used to compare the balance between pro‐ and anti‐inflammatory cytokines. The difference was statistically significant for p < 0.05.