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Uh, no. A person may test positive for antibodies to a pathogen because they have had the disease in the past and recovered, because they have been infected in the past but eliminated the pathogen without developing disease, or because they have been vaccinated against the pathogen. In addition, an infant may test positive for antibody to a pathogen because of passive maternal immunity.
Seropositivity absolutely does not equate to infection or disease or even the presence of the pathogen.
You seem to be inviting posters to state something incorrect so that you can say that it is incorrect. I doubt if anyone here is that stupid.
Rolfe.
Very reasonable response. However when it comes to herpes there are a lot of people diagnose as a-symptomatic because they tested positive in an antibody test but have never had any signs and symptoms. Now you will probably say that the count matters but it doesn't because medicine has no way of knowing for sure if a virus is causing generation of an antibody or if it is a bacteria and just to let you in on the secret more than likely the antibody associated with herpes testing is going to be a result of fungus and not virus.
Also I suspect my clients will test negative across the boards in regards to antibody test within 6 to 12 months of correcting the autoimmune. It would be nice if medicine wanted to test me on this one but they wont.