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Cdc hivtestingalgorithmrecommendationfinal doc, pge11, say hiv antibodies r antigen r viral load detect by day 50. then y some docs say no? cdc wrong?
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Question unclear: Many doctors dealing with HIV disease prefer to keep the viral load at levels which are not capable of being measured. On some types of testing this means that the viral load is
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