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can you get aids from oral sex
May 7, 1999

can you get aids from oral sex

Response from Dr. Reznik

This is a question that is currently under investigation.

There are approximately 24 documented instances where it is believed that oral transmission of HIV occurred. For further information on this topic, please visit the following URL: http://www.hivdent.org/_private/Oralman.html

which contains selected portions of a review published in the journal AIDS (Oral Transmission of HIV: A Review of the Evidence) written by Rothenberg R , Scarlett M, del Rio C, Reznik DA, O'Daniels CM

AIDS 1998, 12:2095-2105

I hope this information proves helpful.

DR



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