Table 1.

Baseline characteristics of study participants

	Early HIV	Chronic HIV	HIV-negative
Number of participants	43	50	35
Age, y*	36 (19-61)	34 (20-58)	36 (22-44)
Male sex (%)	100	100	100
CD4+ T-cell count (cells/μL)*	486 (150-873)	272 (33-924)	924 (486-1470)
CD8+ T-cell count (cells/μL)*	851 (329-3421)	851 (209-1672)	518 (239-1103)
CD19+ B-cell count (cells/μL)*	136 (38-398)	145 (33-686)	277 (114-671)
HIV RNA (copies/mL plasma)†	69 551 (1681-2 436 000)	56 328 (3361-1 823 000)	N/A

^*Median (range).

^†Geometric mean (range).