Correlation of Nonspecific Antiviral Activity with the Ability to Isolate Infectious Hiv-1 from Saliva
- 5 May 1994
- journal article
- letter
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 330 (18) , 1314-1315
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm199405053301815
Abstract
Despite evidence of HIV in the saliva of HIV-positive persons, oral transmission of the virus appears to be a rare event. Researchers have isolated infectious virus from only a small percentage of saliva samples from HIV-infected patients, even when virus can be isolated from peripheral-blood samples from the same persons1,2 or when HIV DNA is detected in saliva by the polymerase chain reaction3.Keywords
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