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June 7, 2022 at 1:19 pm
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Terri Warren
Keymaster
No, you probably wouldn’t benefit from the western blot as your IgG test is a high positive and neither test will tell you if your infection is oral or genital. About half the population between 14 and 49 has HSV 1 infection. If your partner tests negative, they should know that the IgG test misses 30% of HSV 1 infections compared to the western blot. We cannot know the location of your infection, I’m afraid, without a lesion to swab test.
Terri