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From: cole@unix.sri.com (Susan Cole)
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Subject: Re: Antibody reaction time (USC study).
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There was a study out of USC a couple of years ago that generated a lot
of publicity about how some of the participants had taken as long as
three years to become HIV-positive.  Up to this I had always heard "six
months" as the length of time for virtually anybody to show
antibodies.  I asked a person who works at an AIDS testing clinic about
this study and he said that the six-month period is correct, and that
in the USC study the participants had continued to participate in unsafe
sex while the study was going on.   Can anyone verify this?  If true, it
seems that publicizing the "three-year seroconversion period" story was
very irresponsible and bound to lead to a great deal of confusion (like
mine).

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