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Is The Test For For HIV Reliable Enough?

On my 3 trimester labs my routine labs came back HIV reactive, I had a hiv1 hiv2 test done and they all came back negative. The doctor ordered some more tests Hiv RNA QTMA as confirmatory.... my question is why more test isn t the second reliable enough?
posted on Sat, 28 Jun 2014
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Ya if once you have reactive result and second time nonreactive then you must go for further testing. Go for confirmatory test like pcr or p24.
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Is The Test For For HIV Reliable Enough?

Ya if once you have reactive result and second time nonreactive then you must go for further testing. Go for confirmatory test like pcr or p24.