IF Hiv and hepatitis virus leads to produce antibodies, can either test detect the other ?

Answer 1

As i mentioned before, in the laboratory we use separate machines and reagents for these particular tests. For Hepatitis, we detect for both antigens and antibody (because the presence of which may indicate different phase of the patient) using different machine. For HIV, we conduct different tests, after screening, we also do confirmatory tests. HIV is a very rigourous type of laboratory procedure which we follow strict protocol before we release the results (our license is on it if we give unreliable or false results).We used different sets of highly sensitive and specific reagents that are usully made of anti-sera or antibodies and antigens. (well this may sound a little technical or but just to give you an idea how we work )Hope this helps.God bless

Answer 2

Cyanne2ak is completely right. To complement the answer, when HIV was still unidentified, or recently identified, Hep screening was used to detect possible HIV patients, but not because one detected the other. But because a person who had a STD such as Hep, has a high possibility of having another one such as HIV.

Answer 3

No actually. It's not that simple. You have to test for the specific type of antibodies. However, often when you are tested for HIV you are also tested for Hep.