Utility of Assessing Cytokine Levels for the Differential Diagnosis of Pneumonia in a Pediatric Population*

Abstract

These results suggest that interleukin-6 is a good biomarker for identifying bacterial pneumonia and that the interleukin-6/interleukin-10 ratio is an effective biomarker for discriminating Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia from respiratory syncytial virus pneumonia.