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I was tested for hepatitis c and it came back positive. but when the supplemental test was done it came back negative. what does that mean?
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Good news: If the supplemental test was the riba test, it means that the screen was a false positive. If the supplemental test was a hcv rt-pcr (viral load), you could have been truly infected but cleared the virus from the blood and probably the liver as well. Either way, things are ok.
Answered 9/15/2012
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