{"id":2083,"date":"2010-06-11T14:20:39","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T14:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=2083"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:18:06","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:18:06","slug":"how-accurate-are-finger-prick-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/2083","title":{"rendered":"How accurate are finger-prick tests?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you for your question.<\/p>\n<p>Finger prick tests are more than 99% accurate but this would depend on the type of test you used and what it is testing for. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orasure.com\">OraQuick test<\/a>, for example, is an antibody only test.<\/p>\n<p>Test accuracy is also related to the window period. This is the time between exposure and the time at which point the test would be expected to detect a reaction.<\/p>\n<p>For antibody tests the window is usually quoted as being a minimum of six weeks after exposure. Because 5% of people may take up to three months to develop antibodies, most guidelines recommend a confirmatory test after three months.<\/p>\n<p>A negative test result at 37 days is good news but UK guidelines would still recommend confirming this at 90 days.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on HIV testing please follow this <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/257\">link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had unprotected sex with an escort for no longer then 20 seconds then came to my senses and used a condom I have since been for a HIV antibody finger prick test 37 days after possible exposure which was negative and was wondering how accurate this test would be?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-hiv-testing","category-hiv-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24496,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083\/revisions\/24496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}