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The aim of this study was to investigate the thymic regenerative potential in 55 human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-1 infected (HIV+) and non-infected (HIV-) lymphoma patients, candidates for autologous stem cell transplantation (ASCT). Moreover, the possible associations between sjTRECs and other immunological and clinical parameters were examined. SjTRECs levels in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) were quantified by real-time polymerase chain reaction and T lymphocyte subsets were analysed by flow cytometry. Our data showed that sjTRECs were reduced in lymphoma patients compared to healthy controls, although a weak significant association between low sjTRECs levels and increasing age was maintained [odds ratio (OR)\u2003=\u20034\u00b700; 95% confidence interval (CI) 1\u00b709\u201317\u00b717]. We found that different chemotherapeutic treatments seem to induce similar effects on the thymic reservoir, independently from their intensity (type and number of cycles of previous chemotherapy). Results from multivariate models including adjustment for patients' sex, type of lymphoma and type of chemotherapy showed that thymic output was independent from HIV infection (OR, 0\u00b795; 95% CI 0\u00b720\u20134\u00b748). SjTRECs levels correlated with naive T cell subsets in overall lymphoma patients and after stratification by HIV infection (r\u2003&amp;gt;\u20030\u00b737). HIV replication should be maximally suppressed to properly evaluate thymic output by sjTREC markers. 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