Interleukin (IL) 5 levels and eosinophilia in patients with intestinal parasitic diseases

Table 1 Parasites, IL-5 levels and eosinophil values in pa-tients group

Parasites	Those with parasite infection	Mean serum IL-5 (pg/mL)	Mean PHA-IL-5 (ng/mL)	Eosinophil %
E. vermicularis	9	15.5	383.4	8
A. lumbricoides	1	9.98	750	9
H. nana	1	13.61	620	8
T. saginata	4	12.9	652.5	6
E. coli	3	21.15	415	2.4
I.butschlii	2	15.61	297	8
B.hominis	1	17.27	NA	4.4
G.intestinalis	2	22.35	872.5	3

(NA: Not Available).

Table 2 Serum IL-5, in-vitro IL-5 and eosinophil values in patients with parasite infection and controls

	Serum IL-5 (pg/mL)	In-vitro IL-5 (pg/mL)	Eosinophil %
Patients with parasite infection	16.2	634	7.0
Control	32.4	885.4	6.5