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HIV can incubate ?
#161584 - 10/11/05 07:07 AM
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I have a friend who insists that he was told by an AIDS center that HIV can incubate for up to a year before you test HIV+....is this true? I told him no, but he insists that it is a true fact...
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SteveR
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The CDC says the vast majority of people test positive by three months (more than 97 percent) with the remainder testing positive by six months. There have only been a few cases ever of people taking longer than six months to seroconvert. So your friend may be technically correct, that it CAN take a year, but statistically speaking it's virtually impossible. A three-month negative test is generally considered definitive.
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daisey6205
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a 3 month test is considered definitive, but i would have to say it depends on what test you are given. due to my own experience i would not recommend pcr or oraquick. i am at least 3 months now +, oraquick still shows - and pcr still shows undetectable. eia/ifa/ and western blot show +. health clinic told me after i had already tested + after eia/ifa/ and western blot showed + (she did not know i had tested + on those tests) that the oraquick is 85% accurate, but if i was +, it would show and that they did not do any other tests until it was +. i went there just to do my own experiment and see what i'd be told by them. they did not know what they were talking about!!!! at any rate i would not recommend oraquick! my eia/ifa was +, so my doc did pcr- which came back undetectable, so they told me i was definately -. i went back to the original doc that did eia/ifa and had them do western blot, it was also+. went back to other doc and was then told i was definately + and that they screwed up with the pcr, because it was too soon to have that test done.
hope this helps some. good luck.
daisey
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HIV doesnt incurbate thats old 80's stuff - HIV can take up to 3 months to show in a hiv test because a normal hiv antibody test looks for precisly that and so normal takes anything between 3 weeks - 3 months (and a very very low percentage of people upto 6 months) - Some tests also look for the virus it self and this can shorten the time you have to go for the test from the time you put yourself at risk there are a few of these 1) antigen(p24) test 2) pcr - but it hiv doesnt incurbate
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