Intracellular Mycoplasma genitalium infection of human vaginal and cervical epithelial cells elicits distinct patterns of inflammatory cytokine secretion and provides a possible survival niche against macrophage-mediated killing

Table 2 Cytokine elaboration from human monocyte-derived macrophages following exposure to M. genitalium G37^a.

^aHuman MDM were inoculated with M. genitalium G37 (MOI 10) or an equal volume of the PBS vehicle as a control into triplicate wells. Culture supernatants were collected 6 h PI to quantify secreted cytokines as described in the Methods. Values are expressed as the mean ± SEM pg/mL supernatant. PBS values are presented to indicate basal cytokine elaboration. Data collected following exposure to M. genitalium strain M2300 were similar in pattern and magnitude. ND, not detected. *, p < 0.01 using ANOVA.