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Natural killer cell counts are not different between patients with post-Lyme disease syndrome and controls
Adriana Marques1, Margaret R Brown, Thomas A Fleisher
1Laboratory of Clinical Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA. amarques@niaid.nih.gov
Abstract:
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.

