PMC

Fold change ex vivo cytokine production in those who developed infection compared to those who did not develop infection. The Y axis represents the fold change in stimulated cytokine values. The squares represent the point estimates with the vertical bars representing the 95% confidence intervals.

The information in the seven stimulus-cytokine combinations (see ) was summarized as a multi-cytokine prediction score. The distributions of this score for the groups that did and did not experience infection at 6 months are shown as box plots: the boxes represent the interquartile ranges; the horizontal bold lines depict the medians; the circles show the means; the vertical lines outside the boxes represent the range of the data extending to a maximum length of 1.5 times the interquartile range; and the dots indicate data points outside this range.