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HIV prevalence in dental outpatients in Brazil.

Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol Oral Radiol Endod. 1997 Oct;84(4):365-7. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE MED/98007068
de Almeida OP; de Souza Filho FJ; Scully C; Line SR; Porter S; Department of Oral Pathology, Dental School of Piracicaba,; University of Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Abstract: 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).
Keywords: Adolescence Adult Ambulatory Care Blotting, Western Brazil/EPIDEMIOLOGY Dental Care Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay Female Human HIV Antibodies/ANALYSIS HIV Infections/*EPIDEMIOLOGY HIV Seronegativity HIV Seropositivity/*EPIDEMIOLOGY IgG/ANALYSIS Male Middle Age Prevalence Saliva/IMMUNOLOGY Sensitivity and Specificity JOURNAL ARTICLEKWDadolescenceadultambulatorycareblotting,westernbrazil/epidemiologydentalcareenzyme-linkedimmunosorbentassayfemalehumanhivantibodies/analysishivinfections/KWDepidemiologyhivseronegativityhivseropositivity/KWDepidemiologyigg/analysismalemiddleageprevalencesaliva/immunologysensitivityandspecificityjournalarticle
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