IL6 and infection: In the case of the therapeutic 100 TCID50 treatment group, IL-6 levels peaked at day 3 after infection and no significant difference in the expression levels of these cytokines from the untreated control group was observed until day 5 after infection, and, on later days, the drug treated group showed reduced expression with significant differences on day 7 after infection (p < 0.05) (Figure 3(a)(iii)).