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Is The Test For For HIV Reliable Enough?
On my 3 trimester labs my routine labs came back HIV reactive, I had a hiv1 hiv2 test done and they all came back negative. The doctor ordered some more tests Hiv RNA QTMA as confirmatory.... my question is why more test isn t the second reliable enough?
Mon, 7 Jul 2014
Ya if once you have reactive result and second time nonreactive then you must go for further testing. Go for confirmatory test like pcr or p24.
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