There’s good agreement between people who get a negative inhibition assay and they subsequently get a negative Western blot. With this low positive from Quest on the first and third test, but a negative inhibition assay, I think the odds are very high that this represents a true negative for you. We don’t know what causes false positives but what we believe is going on is that the first test that Quest does picks up proteins associated with something else and says that they’re due to herpes. This first test that was done by quest has a very high false positive rate. It’s very disturbing to me that they continue to use it.
Terri