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| | HIV & AIDS - A Critical Analysis of the HIV-T4-Cell-AIDS Hypothesis |
 | | T4 cell counts "can vary widely between labs or because of a person's age, the time of day a measurement is taken, and even whether the person smokes" (Cohen, 1992). |
 | | T4 cells were less than 200X106/L before 46 of 49 episodes of PCP, 8 of 8 episodes of CMV pneumonia, 7 out of 7 Cryptococcal neoformans pneumonia, 19 of 21 episodes of Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare pneumonia, 6 of 8 [pulmonary] KS and in 30 out of 41 non-specific interstitial pneumonia. |
 | | In conclusion, decrease in the number of T4 lymphocytes irrespective of how it is induced, that is, by destruction of the T4 cells or by a phenotypic change, and of its cause, is neither necessary nor sufficient for the appearance of KS and OI including PCP, that is, of the clinical syndrome. |
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