Reptitive results- potisitive ELISA, cynical WESTERN BLOT? any reason why?
When you submit your blood for HIV antibody testing, it is first tested using ELISA. The ELISA trial is very sensitive and can for this reason have false positives, but if the ELISA assessment is negative it is considered accurate, as the chance of a false negative on an ELISA check is very amazingly rare.
The Western Blot trial is done next if the results to the ELISA be indeterminate, or positive. The Western Blot is very specific and the probability of having a false distrustful are very terrifically rare.
Various things may exact a false positive on a single HIV laboratory test. But when a human being is tested for HIV, multiple independent laboratory tests are used. The separate laboratory test catch respectively other's errors, so the HIV test result for the creature is highly accurate. The uncertainty of a false positive in a low-prevalence setting is going on for 1 in 250,000. For more, see Chou et al, Annals of Internal Medicine, 5 July 05, vol 143, #1, p 55-73.
sometimes if you enjoy something else going on with your immune system (other than hiv virus) it can grounds the elisa to be positive...
The ELISA can have false positives, thats why they are other confirmed. The western blot is considered the gold standard though so you should walk on that
ELISA can have false positives.
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