Table 3 Immune responses against Giardia and control antigens as measured by the percentage of CD25CD26 positive CD4 T cells by flow-cytometry
From: Giardia-specific cellular immune responses in post-giardiasis chronic fatigue syndrome
Exposed | Unexposed | p-values | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Stimulation agent | No PI-fatigue controls (n = 19) | PI-CFS & ICF (n = 18) | Fatigue other cause (n = 9) | Recovered from fatigue (n = 10) | Healthy controls (n = 10) | Exposed (n = 56)vs unexposed (n = 10) | No PI-fatigue controls (n = 19) vs PI-CFS/ICF(n = 19) |
Giardia ass A 10 μg/ml | 8.6 (5.8) | 10.3 (7.7) | 8.8 (5.0) | 12.4 (8.1) | 1.8 (3.9) | 0.001 | ns* |
Giardia ass B 10 μg/ml | 3.1 (2.2) | 4.3 (7.3) | 3.7 (3.9) | 7.9 (5.7) | 1.9 (1.6) | 0.009 | ns* |
Tuberculin (PPD)10 μg/ml | 6.6 (5.4) | 11.3 (11.1) | 9.2 (11.4) | 13.6 (5.2) | 10.0 (13.6) | ns | ns* |
LPS S. typi 1 μg/ml | 5.2 (5.5) | 5.2 (9.6) | 4.5 (2.5) | 5.1 (2.9) | 3.0 (14.6) | ns | ns* |