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Natural Killer Cell Counts Are Not Different between Patients with Post-Lyme Disease Syndrome and Controls

2009; American Society for Microbiology; Volume: 16; Issue: 8 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1128/cvi.00167-09

ISSN

1556-6811

Autores

Adriana Marques, Margaret R. Brown, Thomas A. Fleisher,

Tópico(s)

Viral Infections and Vectors

Resumo

It has been reported that patients with "chronic Lyme disease" have a decreased number of natural killer cells, as defined by the CD57 marker. We performed immunophenotyping in 9 individuals with post-Lyme disease syndrome, 12 who recovered from Lyme disease, and 9 healthy volunteers. The number of natural killer cells was not significantly different between the groups.

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