TY - JOUR T1 - Detection of HCV-RNA in saliva of patients with chronic hepatitis C. JF - Gut JO - Gut SP - S59 LP - S60 DO - 10.1136/gut.34.2_Suppl.S59 VL - 34 IS - 2 Suppl AU - P Couzigou AU - L Richard AU - F Dumas AU - L Schouler AU - H Fleury Y1 - 1993/01/01 UR - http://gut.bmj.com/content/34/2_Suppl/S59.abstract N2 - Previous studies have provided conflicting results on the presence of hepatitis C virus-RNA in saliva. In this study, 23 (62%) of 37 patients tested positive for hepatitis C virus-RNA in saliva, using polymerase chain reaction analysis. A slightly greater proportion had a sporadic rather than a parenteral origin of chronic hepatitis C. These results provide a biological basis for saliva as a possible source of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, but do not necessarily imply transmission by this route. ER -