I am a 27 year old healthy female.

 In July of 2018, I was diagnosed with genital herpes based on a positive culture from an active lesion. As far as I've been told, this test did not distinguish between HSV 1 and 2. The outbreak occurred after having vaginal and oral sex with someone who I later found out has had oral cold sores. I have not had another outbreak since then. These things considered, my guess was always that it was HSV 1. 

 I recently became curious enough to get HSV 1 and 2 antibody tests, which were both negative. I repeated the tests and they were negative again, leaving me and my doctors pretty confused.

 I read an article written by a woman in a similar predicament that cited some great information from conversations she'd had with Dr. Handsfield and others, including that the HSV 1 antibody test has a 10-15% false negative rate. 

The most likely conclusion that I have come to is that I have HSV 1 with antibodies at an undetectable level. My questions are:

• Would you agree with this? Are there other possible explanations?

• How likely is it that I will transmit the virus to another person genitally to genitally? What about genitally to orally? 

• Is the transmission rate high enough for either route of transmission that the best practice is to continue disclosing before every sexual encounter?