DESCRIPTION:
Antibodies to HIV-1 and HIV-2 appear as the body’s response to the human immunodeficiency virus, which is most often transmitted sexually, through contaminated blood or through an infected mother to a newborn. The p24 antigen is a viral core protein that can be detected in the blood before the appearance of antibodies, during an acute infection when the individual is highly infectious. Since the level of p24 antigen decreases with the development of antibodies, its detection in the blood cannot be used as a single test to prove infection.
DETERMINATION:
Sample: Blood (serum)
CLINICAL SIGNIFICANCE:
Antibodies to HIV-1 and HIV-2 can be determined 4-12 weeks after infection and remain for life. Every positive anti-HIV result requires confirmation by another method.
RESULT:
REFERENCE VALUES: negative
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