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Are lymphocytes increase and neutrophils decrease initially when a hiv person is recently developing an antibodies ? or lmpho decreases instead ?

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Dr. John Chiu answered

Either way: During the initial phase of any viral infection, the lymphocyte count may increase or decrease.

Answered 4/15/2018

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