Elevated Natural Killer Cell-Mediated Cytotoxicity Is Associated with Cavity Formation in Pulmonary Tuberculosis Patients

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The proportion of peripheral lymphocytes in pulmonary TB patients with cavity or noncavity and healthy uninfected donors from our cohort. Comparisons for total lymphocytes (%), B lymphocytes (%), NK T cells (%), T lymphocytes (%), regulatory T cells (%), and helper T cells (%) were performed using the Kruskal-Wallis test. Comparisons for NK cells (%) and cytotoxic T cells (%) were performed using one-way ANOVA with least significance difference (LSD) multiple comparisons test due to normal distribution and homogeneity of variance.