Table 2.

List of immunological molecules and their potential to differentiate children with sepsis from clinical malaria and febrile controls.

Cytokines	AUC	Clinical malaria				Febrile controls				P-value			Sensitivity	Specificity	Cut off (pg/ml)	P-value	AUC	Sensitivity	Specificity	Cut off (pg/ml)
IL-1β	0.78	0.91	0.64	<32.6	***	0.77	0.65	0.78	>31.09	**
IL-1RA	0.75	0.52	0.88	<2623	**	0.76	0.83	0.67	>1717	**
IL-7	0.69	0.61	0.67	<118.6	*	0.92	0.61	1.00	>118.6	****
IL-12	0.74	0.61	0.79	<88.5	**	0.75	0.65	0.78	>46.7	**
Chemokines	AUC	Sensitivity	Specificity	Cut off (pg/ml)	P-value	AUC	Sensitivity	Specificity	Cut off (pg/ml)	P-value
CCL4	0.9	0.7	0.91	<282.9	****	0.79	0.91	0.67	>81	***
CCL5	0.96	0.88	0.96	<275.5	****	0.82	0.92	0.71	>103.7	**
CXCL10	0.86	0.75	0.85	<77.8	****	0.82	0.75	0.89	>26.51	***

*p < 0.05; **p < 0.01; ***p < 0.001; ****p < 0.0001.