Table 2.

Characteristics of subjects.

Patients Characteristics	Uninfected (n=15)	Infected (n=35)	P	Normal Range	Characteristics type
Gender			–		basic
Male	12 (80%)	30 (86.0%)
Female	3 (20%)	5 (14.0%)
Age (years)	64 (47-80)	67 (57-82)	0.240
IFN-a, pg/ml	1.43 (0.31-2.5)	1.83 (0.78-3.18)	0.031	0-8.5	Cytokines detection
IL-1β, pg/ml	1.77 (0-23.25)	8.97 (0-73.67)	0.023	0-12.4
IL-6, pg/ml	4.00 (0.1-9.1)	8.30 (0.25-30.95)	0.018*	0-5.4
IFN-γ, pg/ml	6.10 (2.18-11.91)	6.50 (0.44-21.08)	0.920	0-23.1
IL-10, pg/ml	0.83 (0.56-1.27)	0.91 (0.3-4.23)	0.700	0-12.9
IL-12P70, pg/ml	0.21 (0-2.1)	0.06 (0-0.62)	0.550	0-3.4
IL-17, pg/ml	1.57 (0.77-5.53)	2.08 (0.92-14.62)	0.120	0-21.4
IL-2, pg/ml	0.61 (0-0.62)	0.77 (0-2.99)	0.480	0-7.5
IL-4, pg/ml	0.64 (0.45-1.54)	0.63 (0-1.34)	0.140	0-8.56
IL-5, pg/ml	1.98 (0.21-6.91)	2.14 (0-4.96)	0.380	0-3.1
IL-8, pg/ml	8.72 (2.55-35.41)	9.31 (0-80.96)	0.320	0-20.6
TNF-a, pg/ml	1.25 (0.04-4.35)	1.48 (0-7.36)	0.910	0-16.5
Nitrite (NIT)	0 (0)	0.21 (0-1)	0.100	Negative (-)	Urinalysis
Leukocyte esterase (LE)	0.86 (0.5-2)	2.54 (1-4)	0.000	Negative (-)
Bacteria count (U BACT), number/μl	179.82(0-881.8)	2613.64 (26.6-22218.4)	0.000	0-32.8
Red blood cell count (RBC), number/μl	631.79(4.3-4729.7)	898.67 (0.1-9840.5)	0.750	0.2-13.8
White blood cell count (WBC), number/μl	191.99(14.3-385.5)	2823.35 (7.5-36212.4)	0.000	0-7.1

Data are presented as n (%) or means (range).

Bold and underlined number means P<0.05, Wilcoxon test.