From: Mycobacterium tuberculosis PPD-induced immune biomarkers measurable in vitro following BCG vaccination of UK adolescents by multiplex bead array and intracellular cytokine staining
Biomarker
Spearman correlation with IFNγ responses (r)
TNFα
0.91
GM-CSF
0.87
MIP-1α
IL-10
0.86
IL-2
0.78
IL-17
0.77
IL-6
0.69
IL-1α
0.56
IL-13
0.55
IP-10
0.19