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HIV-1 antibodies positive in gov hospital and treatment start after 1 year HIV-1 RNA quantitative target not detected (lal path lab)what is this
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HIV RNA is not detected means there no active viral replication. Medication had reduced the viral load to undetectable.
But before that only one antibody test is not confirmation of HIV. We usually ask to do multiple tests like western blot
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Dr. Anand P R
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It could be false positive.
Go for Western blotting..
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Dr. (Major) Sriniwas Gupta
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Can happen
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