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I've been known that there are some hiv sero-negative patients who do not produce any antibodies. can 4th generation hiv test can detect them. pls help me out?

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Dr. Hunter Handsfield answered

Specializes in Infectious Disease

First, that's extremely rare; it almost never happens that HIV infected persons do not produce antibodies to the virus. Second, the 4th generation tests indeed would detect infection in such cases. That's their whole point: by detecting both antibody and HIV antigen, after the first few weeks, they are NEVER falsely negative.

Answered 1/9/2022

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