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HIV topic update: salivary testing for antibodies
Author(s) -
Scully C.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
oral diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.953
H-Index - 87
eISSN - 1601-0825
pISSN - 1354-523X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1601-0825.1997.tb00043.x
Subject(s) - human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , medicine , antibody , saliva , immunology , virology
Salivary antibody testing for HIV is proving to be a sensitive and specific procedure, especially useful for epidemiological studies, and has the advantages of being simple and non‐invasive. This paper reviews the field and discusses antibody testing of dental patients.