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Prednisone for 2 weeks can affect hiv rna pcr test and antibody test? so please tell which test to do for accuracy? recently diagnosed with bell's palsy
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No: Prednisone is the average dose will not affect any of the tests. Potentially massive doses (over 60 mg) taken for many months may marginally affect the tests but the difference will likely be unimportant.
Answered 6/2/2018
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