Hiv Antibody And Indeterminate

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Indeterminate HIV Antibody test

I recently had a Serum HIV test for life insurance which came back negative. My husband just had an HIV antibody test which came back Indeterminate, showing P51 and P55. Since finding this out, I also had an anti-body HIV test and are waiting for...

Response from Shannon Southall

Rocky Mountain CARES

HiSometimes test come back with an indeterminate reading, this could be because the test was faulty or done incorrectly or for many other reasons. I would wait for the results of his test to come back before going THERE! It's a good question... Read more »

Positive Elisa, Indeterminate Western Blot, Negative Rapid Test HIV test was indeterminate?(INDETERMINATE HIV TESTS, 2009) (PREGNANCY, 2009)

Hi, Doctor - Around 2 weeks ago during my annual OBGYN appointment, I received a HIV test. The... Read more »

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Indeterminate result HIV test 13 weeks pregnant (PREGNANCY AND INDETERMINATE HIV TEST, 2011)

Hi, I'm sorry to ask this question, as I realise that there are lots of similar questions on... Read more »

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Indeterminate

Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply

when testing , do the tests go from negative to positive or is there a middle ground if you just so happen to test at that point ? if you were going to test positive ? Read more »

Indeterminate western blot

Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply

Question - I recently had an indeterminate western blot result. I was told to come back in 6 weeks and test again. What does this mean? Am I infected. I have had heterosexual unprotected sex with couple of times the past year with people I've... Read more »

Indeterminate west blot

Posted by Cliff, 1 Reply

My wife and I just started an IVF cycle in feb of this year. We were both tested for stds and hiv and both tested negative. The first live ivf cycle failed and in April we transferred two of our frozen. The embryos are ours (my sperm, her eggs).

We... Read more »

suspicious antibodies

Posted by Anonymous, 3 Replies

I just got hiv test results back that were negative. However, they indicated that there were suspicious antibodies present. My doctor said i should consider myself infected since it probably means the very beginning of an infection. Does anyone... Read more »

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