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Good aternoon sir, is shingles is a early sign of hiv, if so some one who exposed to hiv (participated a sex with unknown) affected to shingles after one week but antibody and hiv rna pcr qualitative tests are giving results as non reactive even after completion of two years, a lot of dialoma, not able to concentrate on any thing, please clarify.
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Shingles is caused by viruses of chicken pox which are lying dormant in nerve roots get activated due to some reason. If you are hiv non reactive even after 2 years just relax and repeat test after 6 months.
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