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I'm just wondering if anyone here that takes Remicade has ever had this test done by their doc? 

http://referencelab.clevelandclinic.org/DBSearch/TestDetail.asp?ID=3540
 
To my knowledge there are only a few labs that perform this test.  This happens to be the Cleveland Clinic's reference lab but there is a lab in California I believe called Prometheius labs that also do the test.  I don't understand what would be so complicated about it.  It's done on the ELISA test methodology which is one of the standards for HIV detection other than a test method called PCR which uses DNA amplification and replication techniques to identify the virus. 
 
Bob

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