TABLE 1.
Reference values of CD4+ and CD8bright lymphocyte subpopulations obtained from healthy adults in Burkina Fasoa
| Lymphocyte subset | Central memory T cells
|
Tnaïve
|
TEM
|
TEMRA
|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| % | μl−1 | % | μl−1 | % | μl−1 | % | μl−1 | |
| CD4+ | 28 ± 7 (18-40) | 277 ± 104 (126-478) | 22 ± 10 (5-41) | 228 ± 146 (35-496) | 45 ± 12 (26-65) | 429 ± 147 (230-686) | 5 ± 3 (1-11) | 45 ± 36 (8-110) |
| CD8bright | 3 ± 2 (1-5) | 16 ± 11 (4-34) | 27 ± 13 (7-52) | 173 ± 103 (36-363) | 37 ± 13 (17-61) | 255 ± 188 (88-576) | 34 ± 12 (16-55) | 232 ± 135 (71-498) |
a
Relative (%) and absolute (μl−1) counts of lymphocyte subpopulations from 177 healthy adults (109 female, 68 male) given as the means ± SDs with the lower and upper limits of normal (i.e., 5th and 95th percentiles) shown in parentheses.