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Assay for HIV antibody screening

Peer-Reviewed Publication

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Researchers report an assay for detecting HIV antibodies in oral fluid (OF), which is easier to collect than blood and potentially useful for population-based HIV screening efforts; the assay exhibited high sensitivity and specificity in detecting HIV antibodies in OF samples, and was up to 10,000 times more sensitive than clinical enzyme-linked immunoassays in detecting HIV antibodies in a buffer solution, suggesting a potential application of the assay in screening populations at risk of HIV.

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Article #17-11004: "Antibody detection by agglutination-PCR (ADAP) enables early diagnosis of HIV infection by oral fluid analysis," by Cheng-ting Tsai et al.

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