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Testing in Adoption Referral Oct 19, 2003 My husband and I are considering adopting a child recently referred to us from a Russian baby home. She was born several weeks premature and has tested negative via the ELISA test. As I understand it, this test can provide false positives in babies but not false negatives. Is this true? |
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Response from Dr. Aberg
 One negative ELISA is enough. The only way it may be a "false negative" is if the wrong baby was tested and the baby you were adopting actually did not get tested. In that sense, it actually would not be a false negative but a medical error. |
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