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Dear teak ,
i tried to review all related answers to my questions ,but i have found quite contradictory information and that's why i am really concerned.during the last 3years i had 3 different partners from different countries.as u mentioned in all your comments i believed that hiv group n , o and p can be detected by elisa test but what i read on this site made me really worried:
http://jvi.asm.org/content/85/3/1403.full
Group P infections may not be efficiently detected by current HIV screening tests due to the absence of group P-specific reagents for antibody detection. Thus, group P infections may have been missed because of our strategy of evaluating only HIV-seropositive specimens.
what do u think of this?
i tried to review all related answers to my questions ,but i have found quite contradictory information and that's why i am really concerned.during the last 3years i had 3 different partners from different countries.as u mentioned in all your comments i believed that hiv group n , o and p can be detected by elisa test but what i read on this site made me really worried:
http://jvi.asm.org/content/85/3/1403.full
Group P infections may not be efficiently detected by current HIV screening tests due to the absence of group P-specific reagents for antibody detection. Thus, group P infections may have been missed because of our strategy of evaluating only HIV-seropositive specimens.
what do u think of this?
dear teak,
u r such an angel.
i called the lab today.
he said that our tests were just valid for hiv 1 , 2 and O then he tired to give some technical explanations which were quite difficult for me to understand( he said because we didnt have the antigen of group p and n we were not able to detect the realated antibodies....
does his answer sound rational?
is it possible that in Iran they use different elisa tests?
u r such an angel.
i called the lab today.
he said that our tests were just valid for hiv 1 , 2 and O then he tired to give some technical explanations which were quite difficult for me to understand( he said because we didnt have the antigen of group p and n we were not able to detect the realated antibodies....
does his answer sound rational?
is it possible that in Iran they use different elisa tests?
dear vance
tnx a million for your fast reply
my problem is that i live in a third world country. im not sure about how modern the test which are used in my country are and as a girl it is quite difficult for me to ask the labratory(due to some stupid social taboos). so far i have had 2 negative tests one elisa and the other one ecl method but because i dont know whether they cover hiv type o and n im still worried :(
tnx a million for your fast reply
my problem is that i live in a third world country. im not sure about how modern the test which are used in my country are and as a girl it is quite difficult for me to ask the labratory(due to some stupid social taboos). so far i have had 2 negative tests one elisa and the other one ecl method but because i dont know whether they cover hiv type o and n im still worried :(
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