Figure 3.
The percentage of CD4+ T cells secreting IFN-γ in PBMCs of 5 patients at Day 10 following in vitro stimulation with heat-killed T. marneffei. (A) presents flow cytometry plots (TM2, TM5, TM11, TM12, and TM13 represent PBMCs from 5 patients; P1-P3 represent serum from 3 anti-IFN-γ autoAb-positive patients (TM1, TM2, TM3); HC represents serum from 1 healthy control; NC represents the negative control. (B) shows the significant difference of the percentage of IFN-γ+ CD4+ T cells between the anti-IFN-γ autoAb-positive serum and normal serum groups. (C) and (D) shows no significant difference of the percentage of IFN-γ+ CD4+ T cells between anti-IFN-γ autoAb-positive and negative patients with either high titer IFN-γ autoantibody serum or HC serum culture.
