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A member asked:
If you take antibiotics very early in a syphilis infection cuz the doctor thinks its something else, and incompletely treats it, and you test for it years later, can the trep tests be false negative? (like what happens with lymes tests)?
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No test is infallible. Each has a false neg and false positive rate. Your judgement of your doc denotes distrust. Switch to one you trust
Answered 2/12/2023
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