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Table 1 Clinical summary of all studies

From: Diagnostic value of interleukins for tuberculous pleural effusion: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Interleukins

Author

Country(incidence)

Year

Cut-off (pg/ml)

Index test

Design

IL-27

Wu et al. [16]

China (high)

2013

900.8

ELISA

P

Liu et al. [42]

China (high)

2015

1012

ELISA

R

Luo et al. [27]

China (high)

2015

353.47

ELISA

R

Skouras et al. [46]

Greece (low)

2015

391

ELISA

NA

Sun et al. [29]

China (high)

2014

838

ELISA

R

Valdes et al. [31]

Spain (low)

2014

550

ELISA

P

Yang et al. [50]

China (high)

2012

1007

ELISA

P

Niu et al. [38]

China (high)

2012

846

ELISA

R

IL-18

Chen et al. [17]

China (high)

2011

843.7

ELISA

R

Dai et al. [18]

China (high)

2015

503.58

ELISA

R

Ding et al. [19]

China (high)

2008

640

ELISA

R

Hu et al. [21]

China (high)

2009

365

ELISA

R

Jiang et al. [22]

China (high)

2009

503.88

ELISA

R

Klimiuk et al. [39]

Poland (low)

2014

327.7

ELISA

P

Liu et al. [43]

China (high)

2015

438.86

ELISA

R

Okamoto et al. [44]

Japan (low)

2005

992.7

ELISA

NA

Wang et al. [47]

China (high)

2008

358

ELISA

R

Wu et al. [33]

China (high)

2006

150

ELISA

R

Xiong et al. [34]

China (high)

2007

358

ELISA

R

Yu et al. [51]

China (high)

2003

150

ELISA

NA

IL-6

Kiropoulos et al. [24]

Greece (low)

2007

17,215

ELISA

P

Wang et al. [32]

China (high)

2005

1950

ELISA

R

Wong et al. [48]

China (high)

2003

4000

ELISA

P

Wu et al. [49]

China (high)

2005

550

ELISA

R

Zan et al. [35]

China (high)

2014

277

RIA

NA

Yang et al. [37]

China (high)

2006

220

RIA

R

IL-33

Lee et al. [26]

Korea (low)

2013

10

ELISA

R

Li et al. [40]

China (high)

2015

68.3

ELISA

R

Liu et al. [42]

China (high)

2015

19.31

ELISA

R

Xuan et al. [36]

China (high)

2014

19.86

ELISA

R

IL-12

Chen et al. [17]

China (high)

2011

785.6

ELISA

R

Gu et al. [20]

China (high)

2002

300

ELISA

NA

Jiang et al. [23]

China (high)

2010

87.41

ELISA

R

Okamoto et al. [44]

Japan (low)

2005

129

ELISA

NA

Tian et al. [28]

China (high)

2004

73.5

ELISA

R

Zhou et al. [53]

China (high)

2012

90

ELISA

R

IL-2

Liu et al. [43]

China (high)

2015

67.17

ELISA

R

Liu et al. [42]

China (high)

2015

99.08

ELISA

R

Ren et al. [25]

China (high)

2014

41.91

ELISA

R

Wu et al. [49]

China (high)

2005

250

ELISA

R

Zhang et al. [52]

China (high)

1998

400

RIA

R

IL-12p40

Fernández et al. [41]

Venezuela (low)

2011

89

ELISA

NA

Klimiuk et al. [39]

Poland (low)

2014

296

ELISA

P

Tural Önür et al. [45]

Turkey (low)

2015

210

ELISA

NA

Valdes et al. [30]

Spain (low)

2009

550

ELISA

P

IL-8

Yamada et al. [57]

Japan (low)

2001

228

ELISA

R

Yang et al. [56]

China (high)

2001

1000

ELISA

R

IL-10

Wu et al. [49]

China (high)

2005

50

ELISA

R

IL-22

Jin et al. [58]

China (high)

2011

49

ELISA

R

Yuan et al. [55]

China (high)

2014

186.6

ELISA

R

IL-23

Klimiuk et al. [39]

Poland (low)

2014

0.7

ELISA

P

IL-31

Gao et al. [54]

China (high)

2015

67.5

ELISA

R

  1. Abbreviations: IL interleukin, ELISA enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, RIA radioimmunoassay, NA not available, P prospective, R retrospective