“…Saliva has gradually gained wide-spread acceptance as a veritable solvent of biomarkers and other constituents ranging from organic compounds, peptides, and even microorganisms (i.e., bacteria and viruses) [37]. Viruses such as SARS-CoV-2 [29,31,33,40], other respiratory viruses [24], SARS [30], dengue virus [2,5,13], chikungunya virus [2,3], Epstein-Barr virus [6], HIV [19,23,45], arthropod-borne oropouche virus (OROV) [20], Hepatitis A virus (HAV) [9], Hepatitis C virus (HCV) [8], congenital cytomegalovirus [18], feline leukemia virus (from cats) [7], or the Zika virus [10,14,16], can all be detected in saliva [15] after the onset of symptoms, suggesting its potential use for monitoring viral clearance [31]. Saliva contains a variety of constituents (i.e., salivary glucose and serum glucose [43]) that can be used for the diagnosis of diabetes mellitus [43].…”