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T1 Gingivocrevicular transudate for HIV screening
A1 Martínez, Prudencio
A1 Eiros Bouza, José María
A1 Ortiz de Lejarazu Leonardo, Raúl
A1 Rodríguez Torres, Antonio
K1 Enfermedades infecciosas
K1 Screening
K1 VIH
K1 32 Ciencias Médicas
AB The use of saliva as an alternative biological fluid to serum in diagnosis or screening of infectious diseases by antibody detection has been the main subject of several articles in the last few years [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]. Saliva samples can be obtained simply, without specialized personnel, and the process is non-traumatic for the patient and economic and poses no contamination risks for health workers. For these reasons, saliva samples may be of great utility in underdeveloped nations, where there is a severe shortage of personnel and specialized equipment. Saliva is a mixture of the secretions produced by the salivary glands and gingival crevicular transudate (GCT). The use of GCT, which has a greater concentration of immunoglobulins (Ig) of the IgG type than does complete saliva [7], seems to improve detection of such Ig in the samples [8].
PB Elsevier
SN 1198-743X
YR 1997
FD 1997
LK http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/45733
UL http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/45733
LA eng
NO Clinical Microbiology and Infection, 1997.vol. 3, n. 5, p. 588-590
NO Producción Científica
DS UVaDOC
RD 17-jul-2024