Clinical Study
Monitoring of Active Human Herpes Virus 6 Infection in Iranian Patients with Different Subtypes of Multiple Sclerosis
Table 3
Correlation of HHV-6-DNA detection in separate specimens (HHV-6+) with HHV-6 seroprevalence (IgG and IgM) in MS patients.
| Correlation between variables among patients | | IgG | IgM | Serum | PBMCs | CSF | Saliva |
| IgG | | | | | | | Pearson correlation | 1 | 0.429* | 0.283 | 0.233 | 0.092 | −0.075 | Sig. (2-tailed) | | 0.041 | 0.066 | 0.104 | 0.787 | 0.874 | IgM | | | | | | | Pearson correlation | 0.429* | 1 | 0.407* | −0.193 | 0.111 | −0.116 | Sig. (2-tailed) | 0.041 | | 0.035 | 0.355 | 0.745 | 0.805 | Serum | | | | | | | Pearson correlation | 0.283 | 0.407* | 1 | 0.363* | 0.607* | 0.218 | Sig. (2-tailed) | 0.066 | 0.035 | | 0.014 | 0.048 | 0.604 | PBMCs | | | | | | | Pearson correlation | 0.233 | −0.193 | 0.363* | 1 | 0.001 | 0.291 | Sig. (2-tailed) | 0.104 | 0.355 | 0.014 | | 0.998 | 0.447 | CSF | | | | | | | Pearson correlation | 0.092 | 0.111 | 0.607* | 0.001 | 1 | ·a | Sig. (2-tailed) | 0.787 | 0.745 | 0.048 | 0.998 | | ·a | Saliva | | | | | | | Pearson correlation | −0.075 | −0.116 | 0.218 | 0.291 | ·a | 1 | Sig. (2-tailed) | 0.874 | 0.805 | 0.604 | 0.447 | ·a | |
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*Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed).
aCannot be computed because at least one of the variables is constant.
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