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Saliva-based HIV Test Could Be Accurate
medindia 8870 Posts Saliva-based HIV test could be accurate, researchers say. What's even better, the test results will be out in just 10-20 minutes. A team of Indo-Canadian scientists has successfully tested the world's first saliva-based HIV test, with an ...Read More
Posted on : Wednesday, May 7, 2008 12:00 AM

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if the HIV based test is accurate with saliva its good effort , but at the sametime if its creats more myths, fear among the poeple that saliva also plays a vital role to spread the disease casually among the people by spiliting .may be this myths also can come out.

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accuracy through saliva its great, would be very useful for more identification, besides some myths can occur that if the pople think that the HIV virus simply can be visible in the saliva . than it would be considerable one.

Replied on Saturday, June 14, 2008 12:00 AM

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