title: [Connection between severity of the course of tick-borne encephalitis with the concentration of interleukin-2 and interleukin-6 in blood].
abstract: 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.
authors.forename: A V
authors.initials: AV
authors.lastname: Timofeev
authors.forename: Iu Iu
authors.initials: IuIu
authors.lastname: Kondrat'eva
authors.forename: V G
authors.initials: VG
authors.lastname: Orlovskiĭ
authors.forename: G P
authors.initials: GP
authors.lastname: Kurzhukov
authors.forename: V B
authors.initials: VB
authors.lastname: Loktev
authors.forename: G G
authors.initials: GG
authors.lastname: Karganova
mesh_terms: 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
chemical_list: D007376:Interleukin-2; D015850:Interleukin-6