Lymphocyte subsets in healthy children from birth through 18 years of age: the Pediatric AIDS Clinical Trials Group P1009 study

WT Shearer, HM Rosenblatt, RS Gelman… - Journal of Allergy and …, 2003 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Peripheral blood lymphocyte subsets need to be determined in a large,
urban, minority-predominant cohort of healthy children to serve as suitable control subjects
for the interpretation of the appearance of these cells in several disease conditions, notably
pediatric HIV-1 infection. OBJECTIVE: We sought to determine the distribution of lymphocyte
subsets in healthy urban-dwelling infants, children, and adolescents in the United States.
METHODS: Lymphocyte subsets were determined by means of 3-color flow cytometry in a …