HIV topic update: salivary testing for antibodies
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The α-test: Rapid Cell-free CD4 Enumeration Using Whole Saliva
Published on: May 16, 2012
1Eastman Dental Institute for Oral Health Care Sciences, University of London, UK.
Oral Diseases
|June 27, 1998
Abstract:
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.
