CD4
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of CD4
1980–85; c(luster of) d(ifferentiation) 4
Example Sentences
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However, this new study suggests that guidelines should consider risk factors like previous opportunistic illnesses or having had a CD4 count below 200.
From Science Daily • May 7, 2024
Postdoctoral researcher and study co-author Ashley Bennett offers a play-by-play: As the virus feels for its best attachment point on a human T-cell, the host cell's CD4 receptor is the first thing it latches onto.
From Science Daily • Feb. 2, 2024
All 27 deaths in the study were among people who had fewer than 200 CD4 cells.
From New York Times • Feb. 21, 2023
Tests showed the patient was also HIV-positive, which he had not known, and that his blood had few CD4 cells, critical immune cells that HIV attacks.
From Science Magazine • Feb. 20, 2023
In the cases where people had few CD4 cells, mpox’s normally small skin lesions grew into large necrotizing patches and their infection sometimes spread to the lungs or caused severe secondary infections with bacteria.
From Science Magazine • Feb. 20, 2023
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