CXCL10 and leprosy: In spite of this hypothesis is not proven for leprosy, we cannot fail to highlight another possible role of IL-10 related to its proinflammatory activity, which such cytokine under the action of IFN-α will activate the signal transducer and activator of transcription 1 (STAT1) inducing synthesis of chemokine 9 (CXCL9) and chemokine 10 (CXCL10) [57–59].