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Clinical and Vaccine Immunology, August 2009, p. 1249-1250, Vol. 16, No. 8
1071-412X/09/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/CVI.00167-09
Copyright © 2009, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

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

Adriana Marques,1* Margaret R. Brown,2 and Thomas A. Fleisher2

Laboratory of Clinical Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland,1 Immunology Service, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland2

Received 16 April 2009/ Accepted 1 June 2009

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.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Clinical Studies Unit, Laboratory of Clinical Infectious Diseases, Building 10, Room 11N234, 10 Center Drive, MSC 1888, Bethesda, MD 20892. Phone: (301) 435-7668. Fax: (301) 402-5953. E-mail: amarques{at}niaid.nih.gov

{triangledown} Published ahead of print on 10 June 2009.

Clinical and Vaccine Immunology, August 2009, p. 1249-1250, Vol. 16, No. 8
1071-412X/09/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/CVI.00167-09
Copyright © 2009, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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  • Stricker, R. B., Winger, E. E., Marques, A., Brown, M. R., Fleisher, T. A. (2009). Natural Killer Cells in Chronic Lyme Disease. CVI 16: 1704-1706 [Full Text]  


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