An inherent T cell deficit in healthy males to C. neoformans infection may begin to explain the sex susceptibility in incidence of cryptococcosis

Table 1 Flow cytometry reagent list for the first dataset

Antibody/Probe	Cell expression	Fluorochrome	Emission spectra (nm)	Vendor
Anti-human CD3	Pan expression T cell surface marker	APC	650/660	BD Biosciences (Franklin Lakes, NJ)
Anti-human CD4	Helper T cell surface marker	PE	496/578	BD Biosciences
Anti-human CD8	Cytotoxic T cell surface marker	FITC	494/520	BD Biosciences
Anti-human CD19	Pan expression B cell surface marker	PC7	496/785	Beckman Coulter (Brea, CA)
Live-dead discriminator	Compromised cell membrane marker	7AAD	546/647	Thermo Fisher (Waltham, MA)

CD cluster of differentiation, APC allophycocyanin, PE phycoerythrin, FITC fluorescein isothiocyanate, PC7 phycoerythrin cyanine 7, 7AAD 7-aminoactinomycin D

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