{"id":3570,"date":"2010-12-20T13:30:25","date_gmt":"2010-12-20T13:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=3570"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:16:52","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:16:52","slug":"what-is-the-difference-between-3rd-generation-and-4th-generation-hiv-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/3570","title":{"rendered":"What is the difference between 3rd generation and 4th generation HIV test?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you for your question.<\/p>\n<p>The 3rd generation tests look for antibodies (the body\u2019s immune response), 4th generation tests look for both antigens (proteins from the virus itself) as well as antibodies. This means the fourth generation test is more accurate in a shorter time as it does not only rely on the speed at which the body can generate an immune response.<\/p>\n<p>As far as the numbers are concerned. Anything below 0.25 is negative. No-one will get 0. Your result of 0.06 means you do not have HIV. For a full explanation please follow this link to a <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/3477\">similar question<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You said that the 4th generation test can detect infections earlier but what do the numbers on the test result mean? Does it mean that the person is infected but may need more time for it to show positive?<\/p>\n<p>I had a 4th generation HIV test and the result was 0.06 less than 0.25(cut-off) what does this mean please?<\/p>\n<p>Should the number be 0 if I am really negative?<\/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-3570","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\/3570","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=3570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24557,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3570\/revisions\/24557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}