What Causes Reactive Anti Hiv-2

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When to Start Anti-HIV Medications

Terms Used in This Fact Sheet Antiretroviral: A medication that prevents a retrovirus, such as HIV, from making copies of itself. Anti-HIV medicationsare also called antiretrovirals. Antiretroviral therapy (ART): The recommended treatmentfor HIV. ART involves taking a combination of three or more anti-HIV medications from at least two different drug classes every day to control the virus. CD4 count: The number of CD4 cells in a sample of...

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Negative HIV test but reactive? Negative Western Blot

My OBGYN doctor called this afternoon and told me that my HIV test came back negative but reactive? I also think he said the lab did the Western Blot which also came back negative. Now they want to do the DNA test. Why do they need to do another...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hi,"Negative but reactive?" Hmm . . . that's contradictory. My best guess is that your screening ELISA test was repeatedly reactive (positive), which triggered them to run a confirmatory test, the Western Blot, which turned out to be... Read more »

How to get treatment treatment with non reactive HIV antibody blood result?

I am writing in a state of desparation. My husband has progressively gotten sick over the past year. Late in 2010 in developed a long standing cough, respitatory illness. Which then progressed to general malaise during 2011, by May 2011 he began...

Response from Keith Henry, M.D.

University of Minnesota, School of Medicine

Recommend repeat HIV 1/2 test including possibly direct HIV test (plasma HIV level)-if both are negative repeatedly then extremely unlikely for HIV infection to be causing those symptoms. KH... Read more »

Pregnant with Meia Abbott reactive and western blot indeterminate! Please help, I'm freaking out! (PREGNANCY AND INDETERMINATE HIV TEST, 2011)

Dear Dr. Frascino, I'm a 27 year old mother to be, pregnant in 18 weeks now from Romania. In my country talking about HIV is a tabu subject and unknown by many people but let's say that I infomed myself during the years about this out of...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hello Ana,Your initial "weakly positive" MEIA and "indeterminate" WB tests were false-positive/indeterminate results. You are HIV negative as confirmed by your negative follow-up HIV-antibody tests at Bals Institute.Pregnancy can... Read more »

gud day! anti-HAV(IgG) is non-reactive and anti HAV(IgM) non-reactive what does it mean?

gud day! anti-HAV(IgG) is non-reactive and anti HAV(IgM) non-reactive what does it mean...

Response from Barbara McGovern, M.D.

Tufts University School of Medicine

This means you have never been exposed to hepatitis A virus which is usually transmitted from contaminated food or water. If you are traveling to a high risk area you may want to be vaccinated.... Read more »

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Reactive Elisa, Non-reactive Western Blot

Posted by Anonymous, 3 Replies

I went in for an HIV antibody test 90 days post-possible exposure and the result came back reactive on the Elisa and non-reactive on the western blot. Are the antibodies produced in response to HIV unique or are they generic to a host of other... Read more »

reactivation of EBV

Posted by Anonymous, 2 Replies

could reactivation of EBV delay seroconversion to hiv and hepc or can it be part of seroconverting to hiv +or hep c+ Read more »

unexplained reactive arthritis, would test be + ?

Posted by Shard

Just under 3 months ago, I had what I have been assured to be a negligible risk encounter- unprotected oral, protected vaginal with a hooker.

About 1 month after, I developed arthritis in one joint, which still persists and a skin rash on my scalp. ... Read more »

Just tested "reactive" and showing some symptoms

Posted by personpitch, 3 Replies

A couple of months ago I got a few bumps around my grown area, and thought perhaps it was herpes. I went to the doctor and he diagnosed it as Folliculitus, he prescribed some medication, and it is clearing up. Apparently it came about from shaving.... Read more »

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