Thank you Doctor! I appreciate all your answers.
I consider it conclusive and would not normally recommend any further testing. However, because I have no experience with ECLIA, I cannot say for sure you do not need a 3 month test. If it were me, I wouldn't do it -- but you'll have to make your own decision.
Thank you for your answers.
In other words, you consider a 8 weeks period ECLIA test conclusive and you would not recommend retesting after 3 months past last exposure, as doctors recommend here in this instance?
Please advise and thank you!
Welcome to the forum. Thanks for your question. I'll go straight to the specific questions.
1) ECLIA is not used in the US and I have no personal experience with it. To the best of my knowledge, it is a highly reliable test and I believe it covers HIV type 2 as well as HIV-1. But that's almost irrelevant, since HIV-2 is almost absent in all areas of the world outside it's African area of origin (including Eastern Europe, I believe).
2) Your exposure is irrelevant. No matter how high or low the risk, your test results prove you were not infected.
3) I believe ECLIA is a test for both HIV antibody and p24 antigen, i.e. equivalent to the "4th generation", or "duo", or "combi" tests produced in North America and western Europe. As such, a negative result is probably 100% reliable any time 4 weeks or more after exposure. However, I do not know what actual research studies show with this test (if any have been done).
4) Based on all you say, I believe you can and should indeed "put this unhappy experience behind [your] back and move on with [your] life".
I hope this has helped. Best wishes-- HHH, MD