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[baller99]

just wondering. does oraquick mouth swab advance give a lot of false positives? which rapid test do you guys recommend for testing?

[Teak]

It was a bad batch of tests that caused the high false positive rate and it has been corrected years ago.

OraSure Tech.  You must wait three months post exposure to obtain a conclusive negative result with the Oraquick Advanced HIV 1/2.

[bemyown234]

It is indeed true that OraQuick has been reported to have a high false positive rate . This prompted several sites to abandon oraquick 3 years  back and prompted a CDC enquiry. However the more important thing is that there is hardly any false negative. A negative test can be believed absolutely.

[Teak]

Both are excellent taken at the correct time.

[ECN44120]

I cannot recomend a test since I`m not an expert netheir a doctor, but the same orasure brochure says and I quote " Testing a blood specimien in more accuarte"  but thats what the brochure says, for me is the same I think both are good and if they are aproveed is becouse their are reliable, if you want a comparison chart of the fda aproveed test this are the links.

http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/topics/testing/rapid/rt-comparison.htm
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/topics/testing/rapid/rt-purchasing.htm

[baller99]

but do you reccomend the finger ***** rapid test than the orasure?

[ECN44120]

you can read the orasure brochures, they tell you about the false positives and false negatives,

http://www.orasure.com/uploaded/238.pdf?133&sec=2&subsec=2

Any FDA aproveed test will be good (that is the reason they are aproveed.