Table 2.

Double positive (DP) (CD4+ CD8+) T cells in peripheral blood of 16 patients with chronic HCV infection and in 14 subjects who spontaneously cleared HCV in the past

	DP T cells as percentage of CD3+ cells [mean (median); range]	CD4highCD8low DP T cells as percentage of total DP T cells [mean (median); range]	CD4lowCD8high DP T cells as percentage of total DP T cells [mean (median); range]	Ratio of CD4highCD8low to CD4lowCD8high [mean (median); range]
Chronic HCV infection (n = 16)	2.6 (1.9); 0.7‐6.8	67.5 (73.5); 31.4‐91.0	24.6 (20.7); 5.6‐58.3	2.7 (3.6); 0.5‐16.1
Past HCV infection (n = 14)	2.4 (1.8); 0.7‐11.3	69.0 (65.8); 38.1‐95.5	25.6 (27.1); 2.8‐48.5	2.7 (2.4); 0.8‐34.1
Healthy controls (n = 11)	0.9 (0.7); 0.3‐1.6	33.2 (32.5); 12.3‐53.5	47.2 (50.8); 20.2‐71.9	0.7 (0.6); 0.2‐1.9