Whole Blood Stimulation Assay as a Treatment Outcome Monitoring Tool for VL Patients in Ethiopia: A Pilot Evaluation

Figure 5

Correlation of baseline parasite load with IFN-γ (a), TNF-α (b), and IP-10 (c) levels after SLA L. donovani stimulation at D0. Correlation between analyte concentrations with parasitic load was based on all active VL cases of which baseline data was available (), by means of the nonparametric Spearman test.

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