The oral HIV test has a 2% lower sensitivity but similar specificity compared with blood-based tests, according to pooled data from a new review and meta-analysis performed by Nitika Pant Pai, MD, from the Department of Medicine, McGill University, and the Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases, McGill University Health Center, Montreal, Canada, and colleagues, published online January 24 in Lancet Infectious Diseases. (more…)
