So if you are indeed positive for hsv1 that s very typical. Asymptomatic herpes or false positive.
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I have only been with one man who was promptly carted off for some tests of his own all of which came back negative.
Asymptomatic herpes 2 false positive. The cutoff for a positive result on the herpeselect test manufactured by quest diagnostics is 1 1. Also is it possible to go through your whole life and not have a. Also a level 1 2 is not low and even lower levels can be found in positive individuals.
In other words if you ve been exposed to. Before the test my last sexual partner was in mid december. Surfboy25 in early february i tested positive for hsv 2 via an herpeselect elisa igg test.
It wasn t passed to be through birth because my mother has been tested negative several times. To be clear before him i had not so much as held hands with another guy. A 2005 study published in the journal biomed central infectious disease found that index values.
I still have not had any symptoms or outbreak that i know of. There is a very low chance only about 4 that it is a false positive result because the test done is highly accurate 96. Hsv 2 causes genital herpes and the presentation and severity of disease varies among individuals.
It has been 2 years since i ve been diagnosed with herpes 2. Something like 70 or more. Both tests offer highly accurate results and as a rule they will detect both variations of the herpes simplex virus hsv 1 and hsv 2.
False positive hsv 2 results can happen especially in people who are at low risk for a herpes infection. Recent studies show that herpes false positive results are unlikely when this type of test is used. Can this result be a false positive.
The chances of false positive results increase as the likelihood of the infection decreases in the person being tested. There is some cross reactivity. So getting the values would give you.
And that s not all. Hsv 2 igg antibodies 16 90 index values for hsv 1 and hsv 2 antibodies 90 negative 90 1 10 euivocal 1 10 positive so should i assume that the igm test was a false positive for hsv 2 being that i have had chicken pox. Also i had 4 sexual.
A while ago i went to get a blood test for stds and to my surprise it came back positive for hsv 2. Igm tests fail to accurately distinguish between hsv 1 and hsv 2 antibodies leading them to provide false positive results for hsv 2. False positive results can occur with many diagnostic tests including std tests.
A high igg value for hsv1 can often cause a false positive for hsv2.
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