Table 6 Results of interdependence analysis among the immunological summary scores

Immune response		Th2 response		T-Reg response
	Measure	ANTI	MITO	ANTI	MITO	NC
Th1 response	ANTI	γ = 0.06, P = 0.248	*γ = 0.25, P < 0.001**	*γ = 0.33, P = 0.011**	γ = 0.14, P = 0.504	γ = 0.11, P = 0.302
	MITO	γ = -0.01, P = 0.723	γ = 0.59, P < 0.001**	*γ = 0.42, P < 0.001**	*γ = 0.46, P < 0.001**	*γ = 0.26, P = 0.021**
Th2 response	ANTI	-	-	γ = -0.02, P = 0.509	γ = -0.13, P = 0.458	*γ = 0.30, P = 0.008**
	MITO	-	-	*γ = 0.36, P < 0.001**	*γ = 0.26, P < 0.001**	γ = 0.10, P = 0.280
Th1/Th2 balance	ANTI	-	-	γ = 0.14, P = 0.030	γ = -0.01, P = 0.437	γ = 0.20, P = 0.387
	MITO	-	-	*γ = 0.39, P < 0.001**	γ = 0.17, P < 0.001	γ = 0.22, P = 0.313

ANTI: Maximum immune response observed in cell cultures stimulated by B. tropicalis or D. pteronyssinus, MITO: response in cell cultures stimulated by pokeweed mitogen, γ: Goodman and Kruskal’s γ, P: P-value of chi-square test of independence, significant associations shown in bold; strength of association: * … weak (0.25 < |γ| < =0.5)
** … moderate (0.50 < |γ| < =0.75), *** … strong (0.75 < |γ| < =1); Significant estimates (P<0.05) are shown in bold

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