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Hiv-1 and hiv-2 do they have the same window period?


Hiv-1 and hiv-2 do they have the same window period?

YES

http://www.areuatrisk.com/tests.php

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"Both HIV-1 and HIV-2 have the same modes of transmission and are associated with similar opportunistic infections and AIDS. Patients infected with HIV-2 may have a negative or indeterminate result by standard HIV-1 serology. The development of antibodies is similar in HIV-1 and HIV-2. Antibodies generally become detectable within 3 months of infection."

I did not even know there was more than one kind what is the diff?

yes they do...they are just different strains of the same virus

Most literature says that they have similar window periods. But HIV 2 spreads slowly and the person i s less infectious at the beginning of the infection and then the infectivity increases.

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