Co-infection testing

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cppoly

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Posted 1/23/2014 6:05 PM (GMT 0)

If a co-infection comes back positive, is this very accurate or can there be a false positive?

ToddPaul

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Posted 1/23/2014 6:51 PM (GMT 0)

I would think it's extremely accurate considering most of the co-infection testing is done with PCR or the FISH test which attempts to detect the DNA or RNA of the pathogen.

cppoly

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Posted 1/23/2014 10:47 PM (GMT 0)

Thanks.

The only worry would be a negative result, because these tests have poor sensitivity and don't catch infected people with high success.

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