Table 3.

Immune function evaluation between pulmonary cryptococcosis and extrapulmonary cryptococcosis

Test items	Pulmonary cryptococcosis	Extrapulmonary cryptococcosis	P-value
Immunoglobulins#	0% (0/20)	50% (4/8)	0.003
Neutrophil count < 2.0 × 103/ml	1.8% (1/55)	12.5% (2/16)	0.125
Lymphocyte count < 103/ml	7.3% (4/55)	81.3% (13/16)	< 0.001
CD4/CD8 < 1	33.3% (4/12)	60% (3/5)	0.593
CD4 + T lymphocyte count < 350/µL	0 (0/12)	0 (0/5)

^#The percentage of patients who had at least two of the serum immunoglobulin levels below the lower limit of normal reference