Hi experts here .
I had an unprotected sex with a girl , one of my friends . it's about 85 days ago , and I have an Elisa antibody test today , it's negative . I was so happy at that moment , but someone told me that the rapid is only 99.8% conclusive because the reagent itself ; and even the Elisa is only 99.9% , and one should test twice and with different method for conclusive .
I cannot go to the hospital until next week because of my job and I feel really badly .
Is it true ?
if you cant accept your 3 month test...you wont accept your 6 month test.
Your elisa is looking for antibodies and it makes no difference to your test results even if you did all those above things.
I had an unprotected oral sex with a s/w 4 weeks back. I got the HIV 1 & 2 - ELISA test today and the result came "Negative". Is this result conclusive enough to say that I am not infected? The lab assistant himself tells that this is not conclusive till 3 months! Is it so? Please let me know.
No 168 days can be conclusive..... because old elisa test can't detect antibobies in 3 months..... so the test at 6 months can be conclusive.... if you are immuno compramised (i.e diabetic, t.b. vitamin deficiency.
my doctor is said to me to give pcr-rt (quantitative) test? what is pcr? I am very worried.
There is a lot of new tests but elisa is just the type of test, there are 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th generation of elisas, and there continue to be a lot of research for new tests, the newest teste tend to be rapid test accurate as elsia tests, there has been also improvement also in the NAAT tests, and some labs are trying to come up with a new 5th generation rapid test (PCR+Antibody+p24) but is not ready yet.
So in short less then a month or during ARS, PCR RNA tests is best (9 -11 days after the exposure) but after a month a PCR DNA test would be best, but at this point an Elisa test would work just as good and without the risk of false positive which would make most people here go crazy.
6. RNA PCR is for early detection, test at the 14 th day after the exposure backed up by an antibody test at the 12th week is good enough to rule out HIV.
Teak, please please answer this for me. If I was to take a FINAL antibody test at 6 months which one would you take? HIV 1/O/2 by ICMA or HIV 1/O/2 by ELISA?
2) The clinic told me the test I had done (the one I am going mark as the conclusive test) was a Unigold 3rd Generation, 5th generation elisa - would this be an advanced enough test for this to be negative? It is also worth of mention I had the Labcorp DNA PCR test done 20 days outside of exposure. I went the 12 weeks, because Teak and others on this board recommend it.
During that time I got tested for other STDs includding HIV. The third generation ELISA test came out negative. My question is, is 6 months enough time for the test to be conclusive?? I was glad the results were negative, but I've heard from two doctors that it can take up to a year. So now I've become paranoid. Am I still at risk?
I took an ELISA test for HIV (MEIA 4° Generation), at 3 years of my possible exposure. Was so scarred to do it, that I didn't take it. It came back as non reactive, is that enough to determine I'm not infected? Or should I repeat it to confirm the negative result?
I read about a sensitivity of 99,5% can this affect a test taken outside the window period?
Thank you!
That time i did not know exactly Hiv is transmitted.( I was not at a risk at all as i learnt earlier) and i did an Elisa test here in Greece- Athens in a lab. The microbiologist told me that i had to repeat it at 9 months!!!!! She told me that she worked as well in a hospital ( Aids unit) here in Athens and that in 9 months its conclusive.
I called the AIDS phone line in Greece and told me that the Elisa test in Greek hospitals is 2 months conclusive!!!
Different views.
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