Table 8: Intracellular killing of Candida albicans by PMN from untreated or X-irradiated head and neck cancer patients. The percentage of ingested Candida albicans that were killed after 2 hrs incubation with PMN was calculated by determining the viability of 200 intracellular yeast particles.
|
Subjects |
Number |
% Intracellular killing of Candida albicans |
|
Healthy Controls |
33 |
15.86 ± 7.25 |
|
Untreated Cancer Patients |
14 |
14.8 ± 2.39 |
|
Patients X-irradiated <1000 Rad |
5 |
12.3 ± 7.58 |
|
Patients X-irradiated >1000 Rad |
30 |
9.16 ± 4.94a |
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