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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2009 Mar 1;50(3):283–289. doi: 10.1097/QAI.0b013e3181989870

Table 1.

Total White Blood Cells, Macrophages and T Lymphocyte Subpopulations in Semen from HIV-1 Seronegative and ART-naive Seropositive Men

Variable1 HIV− (N=102) ART− HIV+ (N=98) Significance2
Total WBCs 243,600 (80,960−612,000)3 104,286 (30,000−328,960) 0.0008
Macrophages 53,077 (21,780−152,288) 22,162 (2,284−120,606) 0.0026
T Lymphocytes 11,566 (2,713−27,827) 0 (0−13,815) 0.0001
CD4+ Cells 10,492 (0−27,576) 0 (0−11,250) 0.0001
CD4+ T Lymphocytes4 5,700 (0−21,851) 0 (0−5,600) 0.0001
CD8+ T Lymphocytes 1,889 (0−9,261) 0 (0−5,889) 0.0063
IL-2 Receptor-α+ T Lymphocytes 5,855 (0−22,192) 0 (0−122) 0.0001
1

Per ml semen

2

Difference between HIV− and HIV+ groups; Mann-Whitney U test

3

Median (Interquartile Range)

4

Number of total T cells minus the number of CD8+ T cells