Compared with AFB-negative patients, AFB-positive patients more often had low-level aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and low-level glutamate pyruvic transaminase (ALT) (7.7% vs 17%, p = 0.03; 1.5% vs 7.5%, p = 0.03), leukocytosis (12.3% vs 22.3%, p = 0.04), reduced lymphocytes (29.8% vs 18.5%, p = 0.04), increased IL-6 (24.6% vs 37.2%, p = 0.04), and increased CRP (26.9% vs 39.4%, p = 0.04). Here, IL6 is linked to Increased total leukocyte count.