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Is there a correlation between immune system strength and how quickly a person develops herpes antigens after exposure?
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Antigen or antibody: While it is true that some immune suppressed people have a delayed antibody response to an infection, detecting an antigen or, more likely, dna or RNA of a virus (herpes has dna) is not delayed.
Answered 4/24/2019
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