None of the patients received steroids or immune modulating drugs at the time of sampling. comparable with HIV patients with decreased naive CD4+ and CD8+ T cells and increased effector CD8+ T cells. Like in HIV+ patients, expression of activation markers and inhibitory receptors CD160, CD244, and programmed death receptor (PD)-1 on CD8+ T cells … Continue reading None of the patients received steroids or immune modulating drugs at the time of sampling