Today , and after 5 weeks + 1 day of a low risk exposure ( receptive penile oral without ejac.), I called a lab in my city and asked them if they offer combo hiv test. The reception girl didn't know what I mean she asked the laboratorian and they told her yes they have. So I got tested and they asked me to come after 4 hours to take the results from the reception. I couldn't see the specialist. I even kept telling the girl withdrawing my blood is this a antibody/antigen test but she said she only know it's " a viral load test", and her responsibility just to withdraw blood she doesn't know about the test but then asked and said yest Ab/Ag test. So I got the result stating negative. But the report was very vague. it was in this form:
"Exam : HIV (1+2)
Result: 0.14
Normal : i1.0 positive"
I asked the reception girl what is this 0.14 why not 0 ! she said it's normal, nothing in science is 0 and she said that this test usually detects infection at day 7, so you being at week 5 put your mind at ease and no need to test again.
My question is what is this 0.14 ?
I know you will say it's a negative result I know this but can someone explain to me this result in terms of antibody/antigen ..?
They didn't communicate me well although this lab is famous and established since 1972 !