Prevalence of human herpesvirus in plasma and saliva of cirrhotic patients: A pilot study.
Gabriella Bueno MarinhoJuliana Bertoldi FrancoJefferson da Rocha TenórioNatalia Silva AndradeRodrigo Melim ZerbinatiJanaina Braga MedinaMário Pérez-SayánsPaulo Henrique Braz-SilvaKarem López OrtegaPublished in: Special care in dentistry : official publication of the American Association of Hospital Dentists, the Academy of Dentistry for the Handicapped, and the American Society for Geriatric Dentistry (2024)
The results show that the presence of EBV in the saliva of cirrhotic patients was correlated with their circulating immune status. It may be possible that the immune dysfunction displayed by the cirrhotic patients plays a role in the shedding of EBV into saliva.