The pursuit of timely, cost-effective, accurate, and noninvasive diagnostic methodologies is
an endeavor of urgency among clinicians and scientists alike. Detecting pathologies at their …

This review examines the diagnostic application of saliva for systemic diseases. As a
diagnostic fluid, saliva offers distinctive advantages over serum because it can be collected …

This book grew out of a scientific review, originally published in Microbiological Reviews. It
has been updated and expanded-now citing more than 2100 references (100 pages of the …

In the last 10 years, the use of saliva as a diagnostic fluid has become somewhat of a
translational research success story. Technologies are now available enabling saliva to be …

Kaposi's sarcoma had been recognized as unique human cancer for a century before it
manifested as an AIDS-defining illness with a suspected infectious etiology. The discovery of …

Kaposi sarcoma herpesvirus (KSHV), taxonomical name human gammaherpesvirus 8, is a
phylogenetically old human virus that co-evolved with human populations, but is now only …

The article reviews several studies on human viruses in periodontal health and disease.
Periodontitis studies report the occurrence of herpes simplex virus, Epstein-Barr virus, and …

Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) is an angioproliferative disease occurring in several different clinical-
epidemiological forms that, however, share the same histological traits and are all …

Ô… If, as is sometimes supposed, science consisted in nothing but the laborious
accumulation of facts, it would soon come to a standstill, crushed, as it were, under its own …

Background Transmission of human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8), the aetiological agent of
Kaposi's sarcoma, is known to occur during sex among homosexual men. However, other …