{"id":603,"date":"2008-10-03T17:39:16","date_gmt":"2008-10-03T16:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/qa\/?p=603"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:17:49","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:17:49","slug":"can-you-get-a-test-to-see-if-you-have-the-ccr-5-delta-32-deletion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/603","title":{"rendered":"Can I test for the CCR5 delta 32 deletion that reduces the risk of infection?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not really. The genetic tests are expensive and the only approved test requires shipping a blood sample to the US. They require a lot of hi-tech and skills and usually are used only in the field of research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a simple question really. Can you get a test to see if you have the CCR-5 delta 32 deletion gene? If so, can you get it from your local GUM clinic in the UK?<\/p>\n<p>Many thanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,23,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-hiv-transmission","category-other-tests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24650,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions\/24650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}