de Almeida O P, de Souza Filho F J, Scully C, Line S R, Porter S
Department of Oral Pathology, Dental School of Piracicaba, University of Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil.
Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol Oral Radiol Endod. 1997 Oct;84(4):365-7. doi: 10.1016/s1079-2104(97)90033-0.
A series of dental outpatients in Brazil was anonymously screened for HIV antibodies in whole unstimulated saliva with an immunoglobulin G antibody-capture enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. Salivary HIV antibodies were detected in 40 patients in the control group who were known to be HIV-seropositive but were not detected in any of a series of 40 known HIV-seronegative patients in the control group, confirming the very high sensitivity and specificity of the immunoglobulin G antibody-capture enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. Only one patient from 84 consecutive dental outpatients of unknown HIV serostatus who were examined anonymously for HIV by immunoglobulin G antibody-capture enzyme linked immunosorbent assay showed HIV positivity (1.2% of the population).
