showed a trendp = 0.06
Sixteen of 25 CMV-IgG- and 9 of 28 CMV-IgG+ patients had undetectable IL-17 ( p = 0.02) and CMV-IgG+ patients showed a trend of higher IL-17 plasma levels than patients without CMV-IgG (7.5 ± 7.4 pg/ml vs 5.2 ± 10.0: p = 0.06) suggesting that Th17 cells were activated (Fig. 3 ).