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. 2017 Jun 28;12(6):e0179942. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0179942

Table 1. Summary of participant characteristics and pre-vaccination Treg values.

Parameter Influenza vaccine Hepatitis B vaccine Yellow fever vaccine
N participants
Placebo 3 4 8
Vaccine 12 (Agrippal®) 20 19
Vaccine 8 (Fluad®)
Age a
Placebo 33 ± 2.65 30 ± 3.63 29 ± 2.00
Vaccine 27 ± 2.06 (Agrippal®) 32 ± 1.47 30 ± 1.73
Vaccine 28 ± 2.05 (Fluad®)
Sex (M/F) a
Placebo 1/2 2/2 5/3
Vaccine 3/9 (Agrippal®) 17/3 12/7
Vaccine 4/4 (Fluad®)
Baseline frequency (%) a, b
CD4+CD45RA+FoxP3+ (rTreg) 1.02 ± 0.09 4.04 ± 0.41 3.01 ± 0.21
CD4+CD45RA-FoxP3++ (aTreg) 0.99 ± 0.10 2.32 ± 0.21 2.44 ± 0.18
Baseline frequency (%) within rTreg a, b
CD25 17.4 ± 1.1 13.5 ± 2.2 7.0 ± 0.9
CD39 23.0 ± 2.7 25.2 ± 2.0 16.1 ± 0.9
CD31 n.d. 85.8 ± 1.6 82.8 ± 1.3
HLA-DR n.d. 52.5 ± 3.9 53.6 ± 1.5
CCR4 n.d. 51.8 ± 4.0 50.9 ± 1.9
CCR7 72.3 ± 3.5 63.5 ± 4.5 59.4 ± 2.1
Baseline frequency (%) within aTreg a, b
CD25 58.0 ± 1.5 49.9 ± 2.7 51.5 ± 1.7
CD39 67.1 ± 5.5 61.3 ± 5.6 66.3 ± 5.2
CD31 n.d. 17.8 ± 3.7 15.3 ± 1.4
HLA-DR n.d. 47.5 ± 3.5 43.5 ± 2.2
CCR4 n.d. 76.7 ± 2.5 87.7 ± 1.1
CCR7 41.2 ± 2.5 23.3 ± 3.2 19.3 ± 1.6

a mean ± SEM

b for influenza and yellow fever vaccines baseline is day 0, for hepatitis B vaccine baseline is day 168

n.d. = not determined