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if your sample gave a negative result for the disease-causing agent, does this mean that you do not have the disease? what reasons could there be for a negative result when you actually do have the disease?

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A negative result does not mean that you do not have the disease. It could be a false negative.

The reasons that could be there for a negative result when there is  actually the presence of the disease

The ELISA may not be sensitive enough to detect very low concentration  of the disease agent, as might occur when one is tested soon after infection before a proper immune response occurs.

As HIV buds from the surface of the host cell, it incorporates some of the host cell Human leukocyte antigen into its envelope. False negatives usually occurs during the window between infection and an antibody response to the virus which is known as seroconversion.

Therefore, if the sample gave a negative result for the disease-causing agent, it does not mean that you do not have the disease

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