STUDY ON THE Th1/Th2 PROFILE IN PATIENTS SUFFERING FROM CONDYLOMA ACUMINATUM WITH OR WITHOUT GENITAL HERPES / 解放军医学杂志

ABSTRACT

To investigate the Th1/Th2 profile in peripheral blood of patients suffering from condyloma acuminatum (CA) with or without genital herpes. The levels of the intracellular cytokines (IFN ? and IL 4) of CD4 + T lymphocytes of peripheral blood were assayed by flow cytometry in 35 patients with CA (among them 15 patients were complicated by genital herpes) and 20 healthy volunteers as controls. The results showed that all the patients with CA had significantly higher percentage of Th2 cells and lower percentage of Th1 cells compared with heathy controls( P