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vestbio t1_iwgcnwq wrote

Reply to comment by Sibaron in Are there strains of HIV that aren’t detectable by modern testing? by [deleted]

Thank you for your valuable time and reply.

But there are articles about updating kits later on where hiv O group could not be detected in the past. Likewise the pcr test cannot kill hiv-2. In addition to these, the HIV n and p group can also give false negatives. I have read many articles about them.

Could a new strain have arisen?

"Divergent hiv strain" among the false negatives on the website of the World Health Organization it is written

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Sibaron t1_iwgdg9i wrote

Kill HIV-2? Do you mean detect? HIV-2 is a another type of virus than HIV-1, therefore for it to detect both it would need target a common motive for both. HIV-1 test would not be made to detect HIV-2. You can get false positives and negatives in any test, and yes some might lead to more false negatives but the test can still detect them.

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