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Private physicians will be able to use a rapid in-office test for HIV within the coming year, Dr. John C. Bartlett of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, predicted.
The test will require only a saliva specimen--no invasive sampling, no laboratory processing, and no waiting for the results. It will offer 99.9% specificity and sensitivity, "nearly as good as that offered by standard serologic testing," he said at a meeting of the Maryland Chapter of the American College of Physicians--American Society of Internal Medicine.
Clinicians will wait longer before starting their HIV patients on antiretroviral therapy to reduce the adverse effects of long-term use of these agents.
Despite their adverse side effects, HIV ...
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