Table 4.

% change in apoptotic CD15^high neutrophils between the different parasite isolates after 18 h

1 × 10⁵ cells/ml neutrophils were cultured in the presence or the absence of 1 × 10⁶ cells/ml FR labelled L. aethiopica isolates for 18 h. The % change was measured by deducting the % apoptotic (as defined by Annexin V⁺7AAD⁻) CD15^high neutrophils co-cultured with the parasites from the % of apoptotic neutrophils cultured in the absence of parasites. Statistical differences were determined using Kruskal-Wallis (*) and Mann-Whitney (^#) tests