Is it better to test for AIDS with blood or nucleic acid?



A blood test, which is a method of testing by drawing blood, consists of a number of things. One of these tests is the HIV nucleic acid test, which is the gold standard for the diagnosis of HIV. Therefore, from a narrow conception, a targeted HIV nucleic acid test gives more correct results.

HIV nucleic acid test is divided into quantitative test and qualitative test, the main purpose of the test is to clarify whether there is viral nucleic acid in the patient’s blood, because the testing process needs to take the patient’s blood, so you can also understand the operation as a blood test.

After the human body is infected with HIV, it will enter a window period of HIV, during this period some conventional testing techniques can not detect the HIV virus, AIDS nucleic acid test can effectively improve the detection rate of the disease, and at the same time can shorten the window period of HIV detection to about 2 weeks.