CXCL8 and tuberculosis: After 24 h of culture, PBMC from TB patients released higher levels of IP-10/CXCL10 (278.5±54.6 pg/ml, n = 19) and IL-8/CXCL8 (27639.0±3368.0 pg/ml, n = 19) than those of normal subjects (29.6±5.5 pg/ml; 6917.0±1900.0 pg/ml, n = 15, p<0.01, respectively) (Table 1).