Connection between severity of the course of tick-borne encephalitis with the concentration of interleukin-2 and interleukin-6 in blood

Timofeev, A.V.; Kondrat'eva, I.I.; Orlovskiĭ, V.G.; Kurzhukov, G.P.; Loktev, V.B.; Karganova, G.G.

Terapevticheskii Arkhiv 74(11): 22-23

2002


ISSN/ISBN: 0040-3660
PMID: 12498119
Document Number: 542697
To test IL-6 and IL-2 serum concentrations as indirect prognostic indicators in tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) course. 13 TBE patients' sera were examined for IL-2 and IL-6. IL-6 was not detected in patients with TBE fever but was detected in meningoencephalytic TBE. TBE patients demonstrate a positive correlation between the disease severity and serum IL-6. This criterion is proposed as a prognostic factor of a TBE course.

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