Levels of Immune Mediators in CVL.

<p>Table is arranged from lowest to highest median values. ND: Not Detectable; Mean and SD (Standard Deviation) are computed for the detectable.</p><p>The total sample size: N₀+N₁+N₂ = 84.</p><p>*Levels in pg/ml except that HBD2, MPO, HBD3 and Lactoferrin are in ng/ml.</p

Frequency of STDs and/or Conditions.

<p>*Pelvic Inflammatory Disease.</p

Relationships between STDs/Conditions and Immune Mediators.

<p>Levels in pg/ml except that HBD2, MPO, HBD3 and Lactoferrin are in ng/ml. Any STD includes BV and Candida. Only variables with p-value<0.05 have OR, 95% confidence interval and p-value shown. The p-values are calculated based on Fisher exact test and the odds ratios are calculated with correction, i.e., by adding 0.5 to counts if there were zero counts. Only two variables are selected in the final model.</p><p>*Number missing in parenthesis.</p

Associations Between Mediators with Pearson Correlation Coefficients >0.7.

<p>The statistic is the correlation coefficient. Correlation coefficients smaller than 0.7 are suppressed. All displayed correlation coefficients have p-values smaller than 0.0001 in testing the hypothesis of no correlation.</p

Heat map of cytokine levels.

<p>The heat map was generated using the web-based program Matrix2png <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0019560#pone.0019560-Pavlidis1" target="_blank">[34]</a> that displays microarray data visually (<a href="http://www.bioinformatics.ubc.ca/matrix2png/" target="_blank">http://www.bioinformatics.ubc.ca/matrix2png/</a>). The mean for each row of cytokine values is 0 with red representing values greater than 0, green lower than 0 and black 0.</p