{"id":3557,"date":"2010-12-15T17:14:11","date_gmt":"2010-12-15T17:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=3557"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:18:48","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:18:48","slug":"when-it-says-antibody-test-are-accurate-6-12-weeks-after-an-exposure-are-they-still-accurate-24-after","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/3557","title":{"rendered":"If antibody tests are accurate 6-12 weeks after an exposure, are they still accurate 24 after?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you for your question.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, the tests are most accurate after 12 weeks from a possible exposure. the longer the time from exposure the more accurate they become.<\/p>\n<p>For practical reasons, a negative result any time after 12 weeks is considered conclusive, even though very rarely someone might take longer that 3 months to generate an antibody response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you for your question. Yes, the tests are most accurate after 12 weeks from a possible exposure. the longer the time from exposure the more accurate they become. For practical reasons, a negative result any time after 12 weeks &hellip;<\/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-3557","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\/3557","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=3557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24559,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3557\/revisions\/24559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}