{"id":7321,"date":"2012-08-02T10:11:19","date_gmt":"2012-08-02T10:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=7321"},"modified":"2012-08-28T15:21:14","modified_gmt":"2012-08-28T15:21:14","slug":"what-does-equivocal-anti-hcv-test-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/7321","title":{"rendered":"What does an equivocal HCV test mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello,<\/p>\n<p>Thank-you for your question.<\/p>\n<p>An equivocal Hepatitis C (HCV) test means that the antibody test did not produce a clear positive or negative result.<\/p>\n<p>HIV antibodies do not interfere with HCV tests. If the CD4 count is low (below 200) there may not be enough antibodies for a clear result. This may also be the case in early stages of infection. This is called the window period- HCV antibodies take between 6-24 weeks to develop.<\/p>\n<p>I am not aware of other reasons for equivocal test results with HCV. It is common for an equivocal antibody test to be followed up with an RNA test which will give a conclusive result.<\/p>\n<p>Please follow this link for more information about <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/hepc\/testing\">testing for hepatitis C.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I tested positive for HIV but negative for Hep-C 6 months ago. <\/p>\n<p>I have not had any risk factors at all, since perhaps when I was infected with HIV but that was over a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>However, in a new Hep-C test done last week, the results turned out as equivocal. And now an RNA test has been sent to confirm if there is any virus in the blood.<\/p>\n<p>I just wanted to know if it is possible that the HIV antibodies may have interfered with the anti-HCV test therefore rendering the results inconclusive. <\/p>\n<p>Or what other factors may make such antibody test equivocal? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-complications-and-coinfections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7321","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}