Can Hiv Survive In A Vial

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can the control positive vial at the HIV ELISA kit transmitt HIV infection if contacted skin

Dear Prof RobertI need your expert opinion about the possibility of HIV transmission by skin or conjunctiva contact with the content of control positive vial at the ELISA kit for HIV testing. they say at the kit information paper that they test the...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hi,Nonexistent risk. You can't get infected from any of the components in an HIV ELISA testing kit. Period.Dr. Bob... Read more »

Does sharing vial of steroid(testosterone 400) risky for HIV AND hapitatis

HiI am anxious. I used to take steroid, i never shared needles, all the needles were packeged from... Read more »

Response from Lynn E. Taylor, M.D., F.A.C.P. »

m vial load is<25 t-cell395,why am i tired

dear doctors, i was infected with hiv in 1981, i did not take medications until i wound up in a... Read more »

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U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Wanted: Multiuse Vial Rule in New York

US Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) is calling on the Food and Drug Administration to take up the safety issues surrounding multidose medicine vials. His request follows the recent case of Dr. Harvey Finkelstein of Dix Hills, who placed more than 10,000... Read more »

Survival of HIV-Infected Injection Drug Users (IDUs) in the Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy Era, Relative to Sex- and Age-Specific Survival of HIV-Uninfected IDUs

It remains unclear whether HIV-infected injection drug users (IDUs) in the era of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) have durations of survival similar to those for comparable HIV-uninfected IDUs. The aim of the current study was to... Read more »

HCV Survival in Syringes Affected by Syringe Type, Time and Temperature

Below is the transcript of a press conference held at CROI 2010 on Feb. 19, in which Elijah Paintsil, M.D., F.A.A.P., of Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, Conn., discusses a study he presented on the survival of hepatitis C virus... Read more »

Survival Rates Among HIV-Positive People Who Receive Lab Tests Similar to People Who Do Not Receive Tests, Study Finds

Survival rates among HIV-positive people who undergo routine viral load and CD4+ T cell counts were nearly the same as those who do not receive the tests, according to a study published on Friday in the journal Lancet , the CP/Google.com reports ... Read more »

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HIV survival outside the body

Posted by Anonymous

Maybe I'm dumb or a lil slow but im still confused about hiv survival outside the body and its ability to infect.Does it make a difference in the amount of blood or semen outside the body to determine the time of hiv to die?My doctor says the... Read more »

Can HIV blood survive for 10 minutes or more in a room?

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Can HIV blood survive for 10 minutes or more in a room? Read more »

how much time can hiv survive on a needle?

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HIV Survival

Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply

I've been searching everywhere and cannot find a good answer to this question. How long will HIV survive in everyday environments outside of the body? There was a small amount of dried blood (much less than a milliliter) on the sink in a public... Read more »

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