Table 1.

Peripheral blood neutrophils from mice infected with A. fumigatus

Group	Neutrophils (mean × 103/µL ± SD)a
	Day 1 post-infection	Day 3 post-infection
Control	0.95 ± 0.29	0.88 ± 0.1
Immunocompetent/exposed	0.88 ± 0.19	0.94 ± 0.67
CTX-IPA	0.01 ± 0.01*,#	0.02 ± 0.01*,#
HC-IPA	1.43 ± 0.77	2.55 ± 1.68

Treatments were as follows: cyclophosphamide (250 mg/kg) intraperitoneally on the day before the 1st and 3rd challenges (CTX-IPA); hydrocortisone (62.5 mg/kg) subcutaneously every other day, from 5 days before infection (d-5) to the day after infection (d + 1)(HC-IPA);

Mice were infected intranasally with 50 μL (1 × 10⁸conidia/mL) of A. fumigatus spore suspension. The groups of control received 50 μL of phosphate buffer saline (PBS). Blood samples were collected from four mice per group at the indicated days post-infection

^aSD, standard deviation; *p < 0.05, compared with the control group. ^#p < 0.05, compared with the immunocompetent/exposed group