HIV Study - Delayed Seroconversion

[Niceguy82]

Can anyone make sense of this study? Why did the patients in the study seroconvert so late? According to the study the maximum a patient seroconverted was 42+months (3.5 years)! Please leave your comments stating what your interpertation of this study is. Copy and paste this link in your broswer to see the study: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=2512827&dopt=Abstract

[lemmenoe]

This is really very troubling.
Experts online all say 3 months though.

[mandi2013]

The weirdest was that when I did get tested at 3 month she was I was fine then she said if you get a boyfriend and want to have sexual relations have him get tested at 3 months then 6 months

[lemmenoe]

A very nice lady doctor attended to me most recently. When I obtained my negative 8.5 months elisa, I asked her is it conclusive?

She said "Are you asking you are the 0.5% to 1% of late seroconverter? Well, nothing is 100% in medical science. All I can say you tested up to 8.5 months. If you ask me a frank opinion whether you need to go for another test, the answer is no."

[interestedparty71]

The only relevant studies are those done on the latest generation of tests. Experts now never see seroconversion after three months and rarely see it after 6-8 weeks.

HIV detection (and indeed treatment) is unrecognisable from what it was 20 years ago, in pretty much every country.

[mandi2013]

Yeah I dont want to keep getting test after test

[interestedparty71]

You dont need to. A test at three months is conclusive.