{"id":2451,"date":"2010-07-30T16:23:45","date_gmt":"2010-07-30T16:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=2451"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:18:26","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:18:26","slug":"is-it-possible-to-get-a-false-positive-with-a-rapid-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/2451","title":{"rendered":"Is it possible to get a false positive with a rapid test?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you for your question.<\/p>\n<p>The rapid test is an ELISA test are very similar. They both check for an immune response to HIV infection. They are equally reliable.<\/p>\n<p>Every test has a slight chance of a false positive. This is usually as small as 0.5% chance. If a positive result is found then it is advisable to have a confirmatory test. The test done to confirm a positive result is usually a Western blot test. If this is also positive then there is no doubt that the individual testing has HIV.<\/p>\n<p>It is possible that someone with HIV can recover from TB with TB treatment alone and no ARVs. It is not possible for a HIV positive person to recover from a low CD4 count without taking ARVs.<\/p>\n<p>For further information about HIV tests please follow this <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/257\">link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello.<\/p>\n<p>I was recently diagnosed with abdominal TB after surgery. The doctor filled out a lab form requesting I take an ELISA test but the public clinic only takes rapid tests. I have been recovering very well for the past month and I want to know if rapid tests are as reliable as the ELISA test? Is there a chance of false positive results with a rapid test? Is it possible for HIV positive TB patients to recover without ARVs?<\/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-2451","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\/2451","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=2451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24473,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451\/revisions\/24473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}