Clinical Study
Monitoring of Active Human Herpes Virus 6 Infection in Iranian Patients with Different Subtypes of Multiple Sclerosis
Table 4
Correlation of HHV-6-DNA detection in separate specimens (HHV-6+) with HHV-6 seroprevalence (IgG and IgM) in healthy controls.
| Correlation between variables among controls | | IgG | IgM | Serum | PBMCs | Saliva |
| IgG | | | | | | Pearson correlation | 1 | 0.665 | 0.791** | 0.395* | −1.000* | Sig. (2-tailed) | | 0.072 | 0.000 | 0.012 | 0.010 | IgM | | | | | | Pearson correlation | 0.665 | 1 | 0.692 | −0.012 | −0.188 | Sig. (2-tailed) | 0.072 | | 0.057 | 0.977 | 0.880 | Serum | | | | | | Pearson correlation | 0.791** | 0.692 | 1 | −0.093 | 0.560 | Sig. (2-tailed) | 0.000 | 0.057 | | 0.723 | 0.622 | PBMCs | | | | | | Pearson correlation | 0.395* | −0.012 | −0.093 | 1 | 0.474 | Sig. (2-tailed) | 0.012 | 0.977 | 0.723 | | 0.686 | Saliva | | | | | | Pearson correlation | −1.000* | −0.188 | 0.560 | 0.474 | 1 | Sig. (2-tailed) | 0.010 | 0.880 | 0.622 | 0.686 | |
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**Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed).
*Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed).
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