Can ARS Symptoms Appear After 5 Days Of Exposure?

Posted on Fri, 10 Jul 2015

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Question : What is the usual days ARS symptoms appear after infection? Can ARS symptoms appear after 5 days of exposure?

Answered by Dr. Dr. Kakkar (37 minutes later)

Brief Answer:
ARS usually manifests after a week of infection

Detailed Answer:
Hello. Thank you for writing to us

I have gone through your query and I have understood it.

ARS symptoms can appear anytime between 1 and 6 weeks after HIV infection. It is very rare that they would appear prior to 1 week.

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Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar

Follow up: Dr. Dr. Kakkar (28 hours later)

Is there any possibility to have hiv test positive after 1 year negative test?

Answered by Dr. Dr. Kakkar (10 hours later)

Brief Answer:
Not possible.

Detailed Answer:
Hi.

Not possible unless you acquired a new infection after your last test and provided the last test reliably ruled out Hiv e.g an antibody based test at 12 weeks or more after sexual contact reliably rules out both Hiv-1 and 2 infection.

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Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar

Follow up: Dr. Dr. Kakkar (13 hours later)

I did the test from Serum analysis center pvt. Ltd. XXXXXXX Is it a reliable lab?

Answered by Dr. Dr. Kakkar (3 hours later)

Brief Answer:
The lab is reliable

Detailed Answer:
Hi.

Yes, it is reliable.
What was the test type and it was taken after how many days/ weeks/ months of sexual contact? e.g an antibody based test at 12 weeks almost certainly rules out Hiv.

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Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Vinay Bhardwaj

Follow up: Dr. Dr. Kakkar (12 minutes later)

It was antibody test using vitros eci. Result was 0.17. The test was done 218 days after last exposure.

Answered by Dr. Dr. Kakkar (17 minutes later)

Brief Answer:
Antibody test by vitros ECi assay is reliable

Detailed Answer:
Hi.

That's good enough since it was well past the window period for HIV i.e 12 weeks.

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Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Raju A.T