Sentence examples for levels of immunodeficiency from inspiring English sources

APC dysfunction in HIV-infected individuals could accelerate or exacerbate CD4+ T cell dysfunction and may contribute to increased levels of immunodeficiency seen in some patients regardless of their CD4+ T cell numbers.

Differences between the levels of immunodeficiency in the different studies may account for these differences.

HIV-positive individuals are known to be at increased risk of developing TBEP including TBM, particularly those patients with more advanced levels of immunodeficiency [ 2– 4].

This proportion was similar across the range of CD4+ cell strata, supporting the current standardization of this cut-off at all levels of immunodeficiency.

Many complications of HIV infection, including opportunistic infections, non-opportunistic infections, acute renal failure, end-stage kidney disease, liver disease and malignancy are associated with current or past levels of immunodeficiency [ 21- 25].

Indeed, new detection tools such as PCR assays have shown that pulmonary colonization with P. jirovecii occurs in patients with diverse levels of immunodeficiency (37 ) and in immunocompetent patients with lung diseases (38, 39 ).

Supporting this is that some of the G0S2-TG mice had augmented levels of immunodeficiency-related anti-nuclear and anti-dsDNA antibodies in their sera (Fig.  7B), although these phenotypes are related not to vasculitis but to SLE.

Smoking cessation dramatically reduces the risk of bacterial pneumonia, whatever the level of immunodeficiency.

Secondly, as noted by the absence of interaction between tobacco smoking status and HIV induced immunodeficiency, tobacco smoking cessation is effective in preventing bacterial pneumonia whatever the level of immunodeficiency.

This study aimed at estimating the effect of tobacco smoking withdrawal on the risk of bacterial pneumonia among HIV-infected individuals in the era of cART, and its variation according to the level of immunodeficiency.

In our study, the nadir CD4 T-cell count best reflects the level of immunodeficiency reached by the women since at cohort enrollment 27% of the women were already receiving HAART for more than 2 months.