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Table 3 Correlation between cytokine responses to HCV Peptides within individual groups

From: TH1 cytokine response to HCV peptides in Egyptian health care workers: a pilot study

Group

INFγ & IL2

IL2 & TNFα

TNFα & INFγ

HCV Peptide

Rs

p

HCV Peptide

Rs

p

HCV Peptide

Rs

p

1- a:Positive P.I HCWs:

Core

0.514

0.014

Core

0.279

0.21

Core

0.447

0.028

NS3

0.51

0.024

NS3

−0.1

0.6

NS3

0.2

0.3

NS4

0.226

0.311

NS4

0.797

0.44

NS4

0.436

0.026

NS5

0.512

0.015

NS5

0.127

0.60

NS5

0.445

0.03

1-b: Negative P.I HCWs:

Core

0.403

0.282

Core

−0.53

0.14

Core

−0.153

0.694

NS3

0.451

0.223

NS3

−0.6

0.1

NS3

−0.5

0.1

NS4

0.893

0.003

NS4

0.47

0.24

NS4

−0.035

0.924

NS5

0.72

0.029

NS5

0.644

0.06

NS5

0.338

0.339

2-Chronic HCV HCW

Core

−0.395

0.439

Core

−0.6

0.28

Core

−0.112

0.858

NS3

−0.894

0.041

NS3

−0.1

0.8

NS3

0.8

0.04

NS4

0.051

0.935

NS4

0.60

0.285

NS4

0.698

0.123

NS5

−0.213

0.686

NS5

−0.5

0.391

NS5

0.759

0.08

  1. Spearman correlation coefficient (Rs) is reported.
  2. Strong correlations (|Rs| ≥ 0.5) are indicated in bolded print; black indicates positive correlations; italics indicates negative correlations.