After the first week the lab told us that there was a nationwide shortage of the necessary reagent and it would take an extra week for results. After two weeks they told us that they had the reagent and the sample, and we would have results in a week. After the third week they told us we didn't make it into the previous batch and it would take a further week.
What is HerpeSelect and I test twice ,but I don't know which reagent they use. and my test result has both IGM and IGG. I heard some people said that the HerpeSelect test is the best reagent to test herpes. and it don't have IGM on the laboratory sheet. they said it will only have IGG result on it, and any laboratory sheet with a IGM result of herpes is meaningless.
After the first week the lab told us that there was a nationwide shortage of the necessary reagent and it would take an extra week for results. After two weeks they told us that they had the reagent and the sample, and we would have results in a week. After the third week they told us we didn't make it into the previous batch and it would take a further week.
thanks teak,
but please suppose the tip of testing reagent tube had contacted the hiv positive blood in rapid test device, and consider that i used the same testing reagent (with the same container) 45 days after that day and the reagent touched my bloody punctured finger,,,again you say i don't need hiv test, am i right?
Dear Sir or Madam:
Hello!
I do not know who you are, but as a fear, I have to be to you for help, you found time to help me.
Does anybody get irritating itching around ankles, arms and elbows. All of sudden I get very itching on all mentioned areas, then it subsides. Hard to fall asleep, I didn't tell anyone but my immediate family. I am lucky that I can go work like nothing so I am glad I didn't tell any friends or co workers. I just don't feel like sharing and avoided all kinds of stupid questions and then getting riled up.
And I took blood test in two other hospital with H-reagent and T-reagent respectively,the results is the same as igg-1 positive,igm-1 negative,igg-2 negative,igm-2 negative.
I didn't sex wiht my wife among these 3 months ,and her PCR-DNA test result for hsv-2 was negative recently.
Untill 17th December, I haven't appear ulcer or blister again ,just my scrotum skin was red for a month recently .
For fear of a relapse, I was still take valaciclovir hydrochloride.
thanks for your help,
8 weeks ago i was in a hiv clinic to be sure about the performance of some rapid test kits.
i gave some rapid tests to a nurse and she wanted to test a known hiv positive patient.
the stupid nurse asked me to assist her in testing that patient. so i applied the lancet gun on patient's finger and the nurse dropped some of her blood into the device while i held the device without any gloves on.
Does any component contain HIV protein which may induce seroconversion? With other words, if the reagent has contact with mucosa or goes to the blood, may it convert the subject to HIV positive?
WOW!!!! You have struck a chord. I just found this forum for hep c patients on studies because I started one 5 weeks ago. However, I have always felt in my heart of hearts that it could be AIH. Reading what you posted back in April about edema (which I have...terribly) and I also got radiation twice for my overactive thyroid, I got a horrible case of Graves Disease. Then I was told I had HEP C!!! Has anyone ever heard if someone gets diagnosed as hep C and it is really Autoimmune Disease????
Used condoms during intercourse, but oral sex and anal oral sex did not use. Once there I started to enter the paranoia that I had contracted the virus. Much psychological pressure these days post risk bad that I could perform my activities until after 67 days of exposure I decided to perform the test and made NO REAGENT. I can rest easy with this result?
1) Do my symptoms suggest herpes or any other STD? Should I re-test for any STD?
2) The medications I took would have excluded STDs caused by bacteria?
3) Is the reagent HSV IgG test indicative of a recent herpes infection?
Thank you very much.
Manufacturer recalled current lot of ANA reagent. Quantitative autoantibody results to follow when reagent is received Hep2 Immunofluorescent slide result: No fluorescence seen. No fluorescence seen indicates a titer < 1:80 or the analyte does not produce a discernible fluorescent pattern. Titers: Titers start at 1:80 and continue to 1:1280. Pattern: Homogenous, speckled, centromere and nucleolar.
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.
My wife is pregnant for 8 months and the last test was reagent (igg igm 3.50 and 3.70) but the two weeks ago were 0.5 and 0.4? these tests were made in different laboratories. and throughout this year was around 0.5 booth.
The article 'HIV Incidence' http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/topics/surveillance/incidence.htm said that 'New technology and methodology developed by CDC show that the incidence of HIV in the United States is higher than was previously known. ' Could you please have an explaination on this sentence ? Does that mean in the previous time ,the old technology ,say,ELISA (3rd or 4th generation's reagent)missed to catch some of the incidence of HIV ?
by the way i was reading about elisa and architect to understand some differences and how they work.it looks like type of reagent and machine are the most important
http://synapse.koreamed.org/DOIx.php?id=10.3343/kjlm.2007.27.5.355
Results
The lowest HBsAg level detected by each assay using WHO reference material was variable from 0.05 (Murex and Advia) to 0.2 IU/mL. When testing 21 seroconversion panels, the total number of positive samples was 15 by Murex and 14 by Architect.
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