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Delayed PEP Start Efficiency
Looking for advise on the effectiveness of PEP started 60 hours post exposure. I am very worried that my delayed start time will have vastly reduced any benefit I might have reaped, especially after reading that HIV prelavence can be measured in lymphatic tissue close to the infection entry point at 2 days. If indeed HIV virus has spread to local tissues pre-PEP is there the chance of PEP at 60 hours haulting HIV replication and allowing a potential immune response, killing any present virus?
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Dr. Murthy P S
Psychiatrist
43 yrs exp
Kurnool
PEP if started within 72 hrs after exposure....its effective.
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