Does Flu Vaccine Cause False Negative Hiv Test

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Gardasil plus flu vaccine, false positive HIV?(INFLUENZA VACCINATION AND INDETERMINATE WESTERN BLOT TESTS) (FLU SHOT AND FALSE POSITIVE HIV TESTS)

A week ago my 17-year-old daughter received a letter from Red Cross indicating she screened HIV positive after donating at a recent blood drive. Results were HIV-1/HIV-2 Positive, Confirmatory Indeterminate, NAT Negative. Retesting was done at a...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hello,Thanks for your post. Yes, we are trying to get this more recent information out to a wider audience. The influenza vaccine changes from year to year to cover the most likely flu strain candidates for the coming flu season. We do have recent... Read more »

The Flu and False Positve HIV Results (FLU SHOT AND FALSE POSITIVE HIV TEST)

I was reading your archives and came across a question about the correlation between false... Read more »

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False negatives - strains

Posted by StupidMe, 2 Replies

Hi
I've posted on here a few times before but, thinks are getting worse so I thought I'd post again.
To summarise briefly, 5 1/2 years ago I had drunken sex with an African sex worker in continental Europe. I can't remember enough to know if it was... Read more »

so ELISA tests NEVER give a false negative?

Posted by Anonymous, 3 Replies

Is this statement correct? Read more »

Diverse strains, False negative

Posted by StupidMe, 1 Reply

Hi folks,
I posted on here quite a while ago now but, im still worried. Probably more than ever!! The story goes that I had drunken sex with a CSW in Germany. It started out as protected but, I cant remember if it stayed that way as it ended with a... Read more »

For anyone worried about false negative results.

Posted by JOHN_IN_LONDON, 2 Replies

PERT assay for plasma RNA HIV-1
A new assay, called the product-enhanced reverse transcriptase (PERT) assay, provides a more accurate method of detecting plasma RNA HIV-1 compared with the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay. Dr. Jurg Boni and... Read more »

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