| relationship between interleukin-5 production and variations in eosinophil counts during hiv infection in west africa: influence of mycobacterium tuberculosis infection. | eosinophils are important effectors of the non-specific immune response and we studied whether perturbations in the production of the type 2 cytokine, interleukin-5 (il-5), could account for the variations in eosinophil counts observed in human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) infection. hiv-infected patients without helminthiasis were investigated in a cross-sectional study in west africa. eosinophil counts were significantly higher in cdc-b patients than in controls, but were dramatically decrease ... | 1999 | 10075026 |