{"id":14818,"date":"2018-11-26T10:14:12","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T10:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=14818"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:14:55","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:14:55","slug":"will-ssri-antidepressants-affect-seroconversion-or-hiv-test-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/14818","title":{"rendered":"Will SSRI antidepressants affect seroconversion or HIV test results?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for your question.<\/p>\n<p>It is complicated to understand the implications of this research paper.<\/p>\n<p>Although some of the associations are interesting, I don&#8217;t think they would affect the dynamics of HIV infection in the way you are worried about.<\/p>\n<p>Although these factors might affect risk of infection, I do not think they would affect the outcome of HIV test.<\/p>\n<p>This Q&amp;A service is mainly focused on HIV treatment rather than testing &#8211; see:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/11844\">https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/11844<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You could perhaps email the researchers for their views.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read a research article that posits that SSRIs (antidepressants) decrease HIV replication and downregulate RT [reverse transcriptase] response:<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC2978281<\/p>\n<p>My question is this: if SSRIs decrease HIV replication and downregulate RTresponse and so on, does it mean it has the same effect as the PEP, which means it could delay seroconversion?<\/p>\n<p>Please read the research and let me know if SSRIs have the same effect as PEP on an HIV test.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,16,22,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-drug-interactions","category-hiv-testing","category-peppepse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14818"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24214,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14818\/revisions\/24214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}