Comparison of Serum and Dietary Selenium Levels in Participants with a Positive History of Recurrent Herpes Lesions and Healthy Individuals

Table 2

The mean value of selenium serum and dietary level and their comparison between group levels.

Group	1		1		2		2
	Serum selenium (ppb)		Dietary selenium (mg)		Serum selenium (ppb)		Dietary selenium (mg)
Sex	Women	Men	Women	Men	Women	Men	Women	Men
	32	6	25	3	30	7	27	7
Mean	76.91	65.57	0.05	0.04	115.83	103.67	0.05	0.06
Standard deviation	18.84	25.22	0.019	0.02	19.09	9.64	0.02	0.02
value	0.20		0.36		0.11		0.38

Group 1: positive history of herpetic lesions; group 2: healthy controls.