{"id":2806,"date":"2010-08-25T16:40:53","date_gmt":"2010-08-25T16:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=2806"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:16:33","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:16:33","slug":"can-a-negative-result-at-15-weeks-be-wrong-also-how-do-false-negatives-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/2806","title":{"rendered":"Can a negative result at 15 weeks be wrong? Also how do false negatives happen?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thank you for your question.<\/p>\n

It is extremely unlikely that a false negative test would occur at 15 weeks.<\/p>\n

False negatives are when someone’s test is negative when they are actually positive. The most likely cause of this is when someone is newly infected and in the window period so not yet producing antibodies. If you are worried about false negatives then you should go for another test.<\/p>\n

For more information on testing please follow this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thank you for your question. It is extremely unlikely that a false negative test would occur at 15 weeks. False negatives are when someone’s test is negative when they are actually positive. The most likely cause of this is when …<\/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-2806","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\/2806","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=2806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24438,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2806\/revisions\/24438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}