Higher proportion of CD8+ T cells in the blood in healthy adults from Ethiopia and Bangladesh compared with Sweden

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 91, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 618-622

  Worku, Shewangizaw ^a,b,c   Christensson, Birger ^a   Björkman, Anders ^b   Islam, Dilara ^d  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b DANDERYD HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^d INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Bangladesh; Ethiopia; Lymphocytes; Phenotypes; Sweden

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CD57 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ADAPTATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; BLOOD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ETHIOPIA; ETHNOLOGY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HEREDITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUTRITION; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; PHENOTYPE; SWEDEN; T LYMPHOCYTE; VACCINATION;

EID: 0030688997     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0035-9203(97)90051-1     Document Type: Article

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