Fig. 3: Serum urate significantly increased after BCG vaccination and ΔUrate was negatively correlated with baseline urate.

a Boxplot showing the serum urate concentration at different time points, color indicating different sex groups (n = 281 independent individuals, 3 time points paired). The paired samples Wilcoxon test was used to compare the urate concentration among different time points. Wilcoxon rank sum test was used to compare the difference between males and females. ns: not significant, *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01, ***P < 0.005, ****P < 0.001. b Spearman’s correlation between ΔUrate and Uratebaseline. The color indicated different sex groups.