Different cytokines known to be involved in the anti-tuberculosis immune response such as IFN-γ, TNF-α, IL-6, IL-10 and VEGF were first measured in human commercial cell-line derived infected macrophages to consider the host genetic effects on the immune response that was widely reported to be associated with EPTB (Caws et al., 2008). Here, TNF is linked to tuberculosis.