Table 2.

Comparison of differences in the cell phenotypes found to be significantly different (in bold) in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) patients according to the presence or absence of an infectious process as a trigger for the ME/CFS symptoms.

	Infection (n = 24) vs no inf (n = 37)	Infection (n = 24) vs HD (n = 73)	No infection (n = 37) vs HD (n = 73)	Total ME/CFS (n = 76) vs HD (n = 73)
NKT	0.4294	0.024	0.1041	0.0258
CD56++(high)	0.2810	0.1559	0.0036	0.0075
CD69+	0.8168	0.0245	0.0037	0.0011
NKG2C	0.3877	0.0039	0.0002	<0.0001
Treg	0.1265	0.0025	0.0249	0.0074