Table 5.

Non-bronchoscopic bronchoalveolar fluid cellularity in RSV-infected infants

	Heidema [282]			Everard [281]	McNamara [276]
	n = 32			14	24 Term	23 Preterm
Duration of symptoms at the time of sampling	6.3 (2–21 days)				5.7	5.4
Method	FACS		Differential	Differential	Differential
	Percentage	Absolute # (105/ml)
Granulocytes	76.4	1.5–10.9	85 [69–94]	76	85.3	78
Monocytes	25	0.4–4.5	not reported	10	8	12
Lymphocytes			1.5 (range 0–5)	9	6	8
B cells	0.4	0–0.5
NK cells	0.4	0.1–0.6
CD3+ T cells	1.9	0.3–5.9
CD4+ of CD3+	28.1	0.1–1.2
CD8+ of CD3+	62.2	0.2–3.0