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. 2019 Oct 24;199(2):201–215. doi: 10.1111/cei.13377

Figure 4.

Figure 4

Duration of hospital admission is inversely correlated with the abundance of innate‐like lymphocytes (ILLs) in sputum. The abundance of (a) mucosal‐associated invariant T (MAIT) cells (Vα7.2‐Jα12/20/33 gDNA), (b) Vδ2+ T cells (Vδ2‐Jδ1/2/3/4 gDNA), and (c) ILLs were measured by quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) and the association with duration of admission to hospital assessed with Spearman correlations. The absolute copy number of β2 microglobulin (β2M) was calculated with LinRegPCR 23 and the number of MAIT cells (Vα7.2‐Jα12/20/33 gDNA) and Vδ2+ T cells (Vδ2‐Jδ1/2/3/4 gDNA) determined relative to β2M and expressed in arbitrary units. Individual data points (n = 52) representing the mean of technical triplicates of the qPCR assay are shown.