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Southeast Asian J Trop Med Public Health
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2004 Mar; 35(1): 144-6
Article
in English
| IMSEAR
| ID: sea-30702
ABSTRACT
This study was designed to evaluate the absolute CD4+ counts and percentages in HIV subtype C infected patients at a tertiary care hospital in northern India. The CD4+ counts of 377 HIV seropositive subjects were estimated by a FACS Calibur (BD) flow cytometer. Dual color immunophenotyping was performed on each sample, which was acquired and analysed using CellQUEST software. Discordance between CD4+ counts and percentages were found more in the early stage ie Group A (37.2%) when compared with Group B (31.6%) and Group C (28.8%), with the counts remaining in the normal range but percentages being severely depressed.