() Before it is Oriental Morning Roundup, simple checks through urine, saliva, you can know if they are infected with HIV — China enterprise production use urine and saliva as specimens, are AIDS detection of new reagents have been published. The new kit is an easy to use, is expected to enter the family become self detection means. However, due to its relatively low accuracy, this stage also cannot replace the use of blood as a specimen of the main clinical screening tool.
Nicpbp expert Professor Wang Yu chun, recently at the high-level Forum on AIDS, said that China has 4 enterprises producing this new reagents. Reportedly, apart from blood samples, HIV-infected urine, saliva, tears, semen, vaginal secretions can detect HIV antibodies. At present, at home and abroad have developed testing urine and saliva HIV's new diagnostic reagents, compared with traditional testing reagent, the use of safer, more convenient, but sensitivity and testing blood samples of reagents may be low.
Wang Yu-chun said this new detection kit samples without needles, do not cause skin damage, eliminates and occupational exposure-related risk factors, health care professionals can effectively prevent and detect those infected with HIV and other blood-borne diseases, in addition, urine and saliva collection can use for all of the general population.
The new reagent is mainly used for high risk population of epidemiological investigation and testing, screening for positive people still need to test blood do confirm. At the same time, because of their use mainly family, a limited number of production, than the traditional detection kit market prices.
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