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T cell subsets in acute rheumatic fever, rheumatic heart disease and acute glomerulonephritis cases
P K Bhatnagar1, R Nijhawan, K Prakash
1Department of Microbiology, Lady Hardinge Medical College and Smt. Sucheta Kriplani Hospital, New Delhi, India.
Immunology Letters
|July 1, 1987
Abstract:
T cell subsets were studied in 45 patients, 15 each of acute rheumatic fever, rheumatic heart diseases, and acute glomerulonephritis and compared with 10 normal control in the same age group. A significant depression in the OKT1 and OKT4 +ve cells and insignificant increase in the OKT8 +ve cells was noted in all these groups of cases.