Table 4.
Linkage between elevated cytokine levels and PCR copies of bacterial species, and bacterial counts in aerobic cultures, using Mann–Whitney U test.
| IL-1β (−) |
IL-1β (+) |
p | IL-6 (−) |
IL-6 (+) |
p | TNF-α (−) |
TNF-α (+) |
p | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean Rank | Mean Rank | Mean Rank | Mean Rank | Mean Rank | Mean Rank | ||||
| E. coli | 62.4 | 66.5 | 0.603 | 59.2 | 68.3 | 0.118 | 62.4 | 63.3 | 0.883 |
| Klebsiella pn. | 62.1 | 68.0 | 0.511 | 54.1 | 75.6 | 0.001 | 50.1 | 68.4 | 0.010 |
| M. smithii | 61.0 | 74.0 | 0.044 | 66.7 | 57.7 | 0.053 | 67.4 | 61.2 | 0.217 |
| Aeromonas spp. | 63.3 | 61.1 | 0.801 | 65.6 | 59.4 | 0.110 | 67.6 | 61.1 | 0.353 |
|
Bacterial counts
in aerobic cultures |
110.4 | 129.0 | 0.099 | 112.1 | 113.8 | 0.829 | 111.0 | 113.2 | 0.768 |