Clinical Study

Normal Thymic Size and Low Rate of Infections in Human Donor Milk Fed HIV-Exposed Uninfected Infants from Birth to 18 Months of Age

Table 5

Distribution of T-lymphocyte subsets in HIV exposed uninfected infants given as median and range (min–max) and the number of infants ( ). Cell count is given in cell/μL.

T-lymphocytesNewborn
( )
2 months
( )
4 months
( )
8 months
( )
12 months
( )
18 months
( )

CD3+2575 
(839–4300)
3340 (2094–5281)3340 (1995–4697)3451 (2548–5059)3433 (2043–5396)3825 (1686–5073)
CD4+ 1109 (325–2157)1370 (803–2855)1468 (83–2049)1426 (962–1967)1325 (849–2502)1263 (658–2488)
CD8+463 (65–2895)642 (306–2991)467 (128–1264)634 (263–1708)631 (242–1423)551 (254–902)
CD1a+ CD7+9.1 (3.6–65.8)26.2 (3.8–126.2)26.5 (10.4–114.6)25.3 (6.1–83.5)30.1 (7.0–98.9)17.7 (8.3–69.0)