Table 2.
Quantitative analysis of plasmacytoid dendritic cells (pDCs).
| Field | Controls |
Mean/SD | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||
| 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | |
| 2 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 4 | |
| 3 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | |
| 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 | |
| 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |
| Sum | 6 | 10 | 9 | 11 | 8 | 15 | 9.8/3.1 |
| Field |
HIV cases |
Mean/SD | |||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||
| 1 | 10 | 12 | 15 | 9 | 9 | 18 | |
| 2 | 12 | 7 | 14 | 15 | 14 | 18 | |
| 3 | 16 | 12 | 17 | 10 | 17 | 10 | |
| 4 | 10 | 15 | 10 | 13 | 11 | 13 | |
| 5 | 11 | 11 | 7 | 17 | 13 | 11 | |
| Sum | 59 | 57 | 63 | 64 | 64 | 70 | 61.4/4.5 |
Five microscopic fields were chosen at random and used to count total pDCs in the duodenum of six controls (top) and six cases (bottom). p = 0.0051 by Mann–Whitney.