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After visiting this forum and being informed about a non exposure event , I follow this forum from time to time to keep myself updated on prevention. I´d like to share this link about a research on rapid
Overall, 60 tests (5.2%) were falsely negative on samples from 36 patients. Among the six patients with three or more negative tests, olny two had recent HIV
viral load on antiretroviral therapy; one of the latter patients was infected by HIV-1 group O
Among the six patients with HIV-2 infection, two had a false-negative OraQuick test on OF but both were positive on FSB.
OraQuick was negative in a 40-year-old Caucasian man diagnosed with HIV-1 in March 1999. and in a 27-year-old woman of African origin who had been diagnosed with HIV in September 2004.