Different guidelines say that the antibody (serology) tests are reliable in more than 95% after 30-40 days. They are more than 99.99% accurate after 2-3 months. Very few tests are 100% accurate because lab error is always possible.<\/p>\n
Fourth generation HIV tests can sometimes detect infection after 2-3 weeks, and 95% of infection after 4 weeks.<\/p>\n
There is no need to use other tests (such as viral load) after this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sir,
\nThank u to answer this question.<\/p>\n
I had a sex (vaginal) sex with sex worker in November mid 2007. At that time, I used condom. But unfortunately the condom tore.
\nNow I am worried about the incident. I realised my fault. But day by day in my mind the fear increases.<\/p>\n
After 1 week of exposure, I have taken HIV serology test. And it was Non-Reactive.
\nBut I know that test was taken in the window period.<\/p>\n
What my questions are,<\/p>\n
1. Are the tests 100% reliable?
\n2. What is the minimum and maximum duration for window period?
\n3. HIV Serology test is enough to find out HIV?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-hiv-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","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=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24700,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions\/24700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}