When a patient goes from testing negative for a specific antibody to testing positive a month later for the same antibody, they may have a false negative   immunocompetence   seroconversion

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  When a patient goes from testing negative for a specific antibody to testing positive a month later for the same antibody, they may have

a false negative
 
immunocompetence
 
seroconversion
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