Hiv acute infection what is the time scale?

Answer 1

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Acute hiv is when a person is infected with the virus within a time period, antibodies start to form and also some symptoms start to show, but not in all people though.Symptoms generally occur within 2 to 4 weeks.

During this period antibodies can be dtected from the anitbody test around 95% of individuals.

The U.S. Public Health Service guidelines discourage the use of routine testing for p24 antigen in settings other than blood and plasma centers as a method for diagnosing HIV infection because the estimated average time from detection of p24 antigen to detection of HIV antibody is 6 days, and not all recently infected persons have detectable levels of p24 antigen.