Table 2.

Memory immune responses of PBMCs from patients with chronic hepatitis B (CHB), acute hepatitis B (AHB) and normal donors (mean ± SD)

Group	n	Percent CD8+T cells secreting cytokines
		IFN-γ/CD8	IL-2/CD8	TNF-α/CD8
CHB	7	0.18 ± 0.14	0.13 ± 0.05	0.37 ± 0.18
AHB	4	4.26 ± 2.49	4.80 ± 2.23	4.57 ± 2.29
Donor	6	0.28 ± 0.13	0.59 ± 0.27	0.68 ± 0.33
P valuea		0.019	0.024	0.010
P valuec		0.013	0.031	0.010

^aP < 0.05 AHB vs CHB.

^cP < 0.05 AHB vs Donor.