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Do Some People With Aids Have Undetectable Antibodies
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Undetectable VL and HIV Antibody TestHi, Can I ask a very naiive question. If an HIV positive person has an undetectable viral load, does this necessarily mean that one would test HIV negative? Thanks....
Response from Judith A. Aberg, M.D.
Washington University, St. Louis School of Medicine
The HIV antibody test is different from the HIV viral load. A screening test called an Elisa is done first and then is confirmed by a type of assay called the Western Blot. The Western Blot can identify the exact HIV viral products with which a...
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Does an undetectable viral load make you antibody negative?If a HIV+ person using HAART and successfully get undetectable viral load for a long period (years)... Read more »Undetectable Viral Load Infection and Superinfection (FINDINGS SUGGEST HIV CAN BE TRANSMITTED FROM MSM WITH UNDETECTABLE VIRAL LOAD 2009) (SUPERINFECTION, 2009)Thanks for your comments and information about the possibility that people with undetectable viral... Read more »
Articles
Study of HIV Superinfection and Neutralizing Antibody Responses Causes ConfusionOn March 29 th , PLoS Pathogens published a paper reporting that women superinfected with two HIV variants are more likely to generate antibody responses capable of neutralizing a broad array of viral strains (known as broadly neutralizing... Read more »
Discovery of Two Antibodies Could Move AIDS Vaccine Development ForwardScientists from Scripps Research Institute on Thursday announced they have discovered and isolated two antibodies "with the ability to neutralize [or block the action of] many strains of the AIDS virus, a discovery that might help create a... Read more »
Anti-HIV Antibodies May Spur AIDS Vaccine DevelopmentAccording to Barton Haynes, director of the Duke University Human Vaccine Institute at Duke University School of Medicine, Duke researchers may have discovered how to stimulate production of "broadly neutralizing" antibodies, which could lead to the... Read more »
AIDS Researchers Isolate New Potent and Broadly Effective Antibodies Against HIVNew York, N.Y.; La Jolla and South San Francisco, Calif.; Seattle, Wash. -- A team of researchers at and associated with the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), The Scripps Research Institute, the biotechnology company Theraclone Sciences... Read more »
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HIV Tests/Undetectable
Posted by Anonymous, 2 Replies
I have a question.... Given a person who tests hiv-neg versus another person who has tested hiv-pos in the past and is on drug therapy to the point that his/her hiv levels are described as "undetectable" who is to say that the first person who tests...
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What do they mean by undetectable?
Posted by Anonymous, 3 Replies
when some people with HIV who are taking medicines say they are undetectable, do they mean that when they are tested, the results come back negative? if so, does that happen with all the tests available out there or just with some of them? thanks. Read more » Undetected HIV-1 RNA,PCR at 17 weeks
Posted by roma2010, 2 Replies
hiya all i have the results of my 17 close to 18 weeks results of a PCR RNA for HIV-1 and it was undetected testing was done by COBAS AmpliPrep (Roche Molecular systems) qualification range of this assay is 48 to 10,000.000 copies i also went to a...
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Antibodies vs Antibodies
Posted by Anonymous, 2 Replies
I have read here that having herpes will not affect your hiv test. Okay so I am likely splitting hairs here but since this is my life I need to know. If I had contracted Herpes and HIV at the same time and my body began making antibodies...
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