Saliva Testing as a Practical Tool for Rapid HIV Screening

Blake, Holly; Leighton, Paul; Sharma, S. K.

doi:10.5772/20751

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“…Overall, the majority of studies have demonstrated high sensitivity and specificity of oral fluid-based rapid HIV test in comparison with routinely utilized methods. [15] Clinical perspective of the article V arious studies have been conducted in the field of saliva in HIV patients, such as detection of salivary pH, buffer capacity, nitric oxide, antioxidants , and early detection of oral lesions. hence the future scope of the research is to analyze the CD4 levels in the saliva that can help in the early diagnosis of the immunodeficiency syndrome.…”

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Saliva as a Biomarker in Detection of Human Immunodeficiency Virus - A Clinical Perspective

Hegde¹,

Attavar²,

Hegde³

2019

Clin J Surg

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Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is one of the most infectious diseases which continues to increase worldwide. Saliva like many things in life has various roles within the oral cavity and its importance is usually not recognized until it is absent. Saliva an emerging biofluid is the most practical and a non-invasive diagnostic tool but favored to be more accurate than the available alternatives. The sensitivities and specificities of using saliva as a diagnostic tool in detection of HIV in developing countries reported to be in a range of 95-100% and 98-100%, respectively.

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