CXCL8 and infection: IL-6 -174 G>C and TGF-β1 +869T>C and +915 G>C polymorphism alleles and genotype frequencies were notstatistically different between HPV infected women and healthy uninfected controls.Comparison of the IL-8 +396 T>G polymorphism allele and genotypefrequencies between HPV infected woman and uninfected controls showed a statisticallysignificant increase in the frequency of the GG genotype in uninfected subjects comparedto HPV infected women, suggesting an association between this allele and protection fromHPV infection (p = 0.0015; OR = 0.29 CI95% 0.13-0.61).