Table 3:

Patient clinical characteristics of those who did versus did not develop an infection: Trauma patients had significantly lowered CD3⁺ lymphocytes, but no difference in CD4⁺/CD3⁺ cells

Variable	No Infection N=24 (%)	Infection N=7 (%)	p Value
Age, mean (years) [SEM]	39.7 [6.7]	48.4 [2.5]	0.15
Male sex	79 (19)	57 (4)	0.33
APACHE II Score, mean [SEM]	13.6 [1.5]	20.7 [1.6]	0.03
Medical comorbidities (mean)	5 (20.8%)	3 (42%)	0.35
CD3+ lymphocytes	7.2 [0.9]	8.5 [1.9]	0.5
CD4+CD3+ lymphocytes	65.5 [4.9]	55.4 [6.9]	0.3
CD8+CD3+ lymphocytes	27.7 [3.5]	35.2 [4.2]	0.28
HVEM+CD3+ lymphocytes	75 [2.6]	93 [0.7]	<0.001

SEM = Standard error of the mean