Figure 4

Level of anti-inflammatory cytokines stimulated by wild type (Ld1S), LdCen1−/− and Ldp27−/− parasites in culture supernatant of PBMCs obtained from Healthy, HVL, VL and PKDL patients.
The results are expressed as scattering of individual values and data are given in Mean ± SEM (pg/ml) of (a) IL-4 and (b) IL-10. Significance was determined by Mann-Whitney U test. P < 0.05 is considered statistically significant.