[Detection of antibodies to HIV virus in saliva by express-tests in Uzbekistan].

Saliva tests, when used in screening for antibodies to HIV virus (anti-HIV), makes testing safer, easy-to-fulfill (even outside clinic) and acceptable for a majority of examinees. The main quality parameters of express-test for the detection of anti-HIV in saliva were evaluated for the purpose of using the related approach in the HIV epidemiological supervision. Saliva samples and sera of 81 HIV-infected patients and of 99 presumably non-infected persons were investigated by the "OraQuick" express-test.