MOESM7 of HTLV-1 drives vigorous clonal expansion of infected CD8+ T cells in natural infection

Additional file 7: Figure S6. The proviral load in sorted T cells does not correlate with the proportion of CD8+ cells in T cells or the proportion of CD4+ cells in PBMCs. No significant correlation was found between the proviral load in CD8+ cells (left) or the proviral load in CD4+ cells (right) and (A) the percentage of CD8+ cells in the CD3+ population (p=0.06 and p=0.07, respectively, Spearman’s rank correlation) or (B) the proportion of CD4+ cells in PBMCs (p=0.89 and p=0.97, respectively, Spearman’s rank correlation). The linear regression line was calculated excluding the CD4+ lymphopenic subject TBW (see text). PVL – proviral load (copies per 100 cells)