HIV PCR test provides more accurate results and sensitive

The latest statistics show WHO issued about 2.3 million people in India are infected with HIV. The country has also suffered fourth in the world's largest population of AIDS. The good news is that HIV rates in India have fallen sharply, dropping more than 3 million in just two years. This reduction of the virus due largely to more widespread use of tests and testing for more accurate and earlier, such as HIV-PCR.

Earlier this month, "The Times of India" published an article entitled "DK dist shows a decline in HIV," DK stands for Dakshina Kannada. With a prevalence of Dakshina Kannada district operates 0.75% higher than the national average of 0.69%, but "all in 1245 positive [HIV] cases were detected in 2007, this year it was only 815 to the end of October. "Unfortunately, 5% of these cases in 2010, pregnant women without HIV treatment, which will probably pass the virus to her baby.

Fortunately ", nevirapine (a drug used for HIV infection) therapy has seen in pregnant women, the reduction of cases of mother to child transmission, dramatically." Administered to the mother and the child within 72 hours of birth, the use of nevirapine, when the child reaches the age of six weeks with DNA by PCR (HIV-1 PCR) to detect the infection followed. Positive or negative, to mark 18 months, HIV antibody (HIV-1 Abs) test is then performed to confirm the initial results.

Why HIV PCR test is the first course of action? Because it is much more sensitive than other tests for HIV. Instead of looking for the HIV antibody, it looks directly for pro-viral DNA. Because of its complexity, the HIV-1 test by PCR 99% accurate at 28 days or more a suspected exposure or contact. It is this sensitivity, the PCR test format chosen by the industry in high-risk occupations and situations, including when children are born HIV-positive mothers. Moreover, to recognize this test for the presence of HIV before seroconversion, when the virus is much more tractable, and the possibility of a cure is still there.

Today, the same ultra-sensitive HIV-PCR at high risk countries such as India trust their babies with AIDS in the health of the general population of the United States has been named, reliable results, accurate and fast. The national leader in direct sales, laboratory tests, with two of the largest laboratories in the nation for all the HIV-1 PCR test results for patients in two to five business days to make. And combined, however the Indian scenario, a child ordering this test and treatment for HIV PCR testing of HIV-1 antibody for confirmation of the results.

Abbreviation for Polymerase Chain Reaction examined, the PCR of DNA to find the only son of the HIV virus. And because it is a direct test for the presence of HIV DNA, it takes the DNA of the AIDS virus in the blood of an infected person much more sensitive and more accurate than the conventional ELISA.