{"id":2559,"date":"2010-08-04T15:45:22","date_gmt":"2010-08-04T15:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=2559"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:16:34","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:16:34","slug":"do-pcr-tests-look-for-all-types-of-hiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/2559","title":{"rendered":"Do PCR tests look for all types of HIV?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you for your question.<\/p>\n<p>Both the PCR and the DUO test look for all subtypes of the two strains, HIV-1 and HIV-2. It does not matter where you were infected geographically, these tests are designed to pick up any infection.<\/p>\n<p>No matter how high or low risk your exposure was, if you have HIV these tests will pick it up. They will pick up more than 95% of infections 4 weeks after a possible exposure.<\/p>\n<p>A negative result at 28 days needs to be confirmed at 90 days or longer after the exposure.<\/p>\n<p>For more information please follow this <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/257\">link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been through this website and the questions and need some advice,<\/p>\n<p>I had a PCR test done &#8211; awaiting results I plan to have a 2 week HIV test at my local gum clinic and then last week of august have a DUO done again,<\/p>\n<p>My risk was unprotected sex with a woman in Africa, I wanted to make sure that with all these tests if negative<\/p>\n<p>A. the PCR test detects all strains of HIV &#8211; if not does the DUO detect all strains of HIV?<br \/>\nB. do I need to re test as this could be a high risk exposure or are all these tests reliable?<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-hiv-testing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2559","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=2559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24465,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2559\/revisions\/24465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}