[Connection between severity of the course of tick-borne encephalitis with the concentration of interleukin-2 and interleukin-6 in blood].
OBJECTIVE
To test IL-6 and IL-2 serum concentrations as indirect prognostic indicators in tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) course.


METHODS
13 TBE patients' sera were examined for IL-2 and IL-6.


RESULTS
IL-6 was not detected in patients with TBE fever but was detected in meningoencephalytic TBE.


CONCLUSIONS
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.
Timofeev
A V
AV
Kondrat'eva
Iu Iu
IuIu
Orlovskiĭ
V G
VG
Kurzhukov
G P
GP
Loktev
V B
VB
Karganova
G G
GG
D000328:Adult; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D002648:Child; D004675:Encephalitis, Tick-Borne / Q000097:blood / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007376:Interleukin-2 / Q000097:blood*; D015850:Interleukin-6 / Q000097:blood*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012720:Severity of Illness Index
D007376:Interleukin-2; D015850:Interleukin-6