the guidelines i've seen re: retesting say that it takes a minimum of 90-120 days from exposure for most cats to throw off the virus. i wouldn't bother retesting before then, personally. if there's a positive result after 6-10 weeks, you'd really need to retest again anyway to make sure the cat had enough time to process it from its system.
of course, then there's the theory that the virus may take 90-120 days to REGISTER on a test to start with--so a single negative test doesn't really mean anything, either, unless you know FOR SURE where the cat was for the 4 months before you brought it home...
On 9/4/06, Susan Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I know there are people on this list who have seen a positive turn negative, using IFA for both tests, after 6 or 8 MONTHS. I think if youu see an ELISA positive turn negative after 6-10 weeks then you had a false positive to start with.
kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:I would just like to know statistically if anyone out there has had
the initial test pos and then after 6-10 weeks become neg,,,either
ELisa of IFA...and stay neg??
Has anyone out there used Immuno regulin on a newly dignosed FELV
before they were symptomatic and the results on succeeding tests,
Already using Vit C and lysine....
Kelly
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