Fig 2

B cell recovery is not influenced by pre-chemotherapy levels of B cells while CD4+ T cell recovery is significantly impaired in patients with the highest pre-chemotherapy CD4+ T cell levels. Patients were divided into three tertiles based on pre-chemotherapy absolute counts of B cells (top left) or CD4+ T cells (bottom left). Relative levels of these cell types at time-points after the end of chemotherapy (2 weeks [2w]; 3, 6 or 9 months [3m, 6m, 9m]) are shown for the upper and lower tertiles (right panels) and were compared pairwise at each time-point (* p < 0.02). Boxes represent 50 % of the data, with medians (lines), interquartile ranges (whiskers) and individual outliers (circles)