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Why do some animals get inconclusive positive and suspicious negative results?

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Why do some animals get inconclusive positive and suspicious negative results?

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In several diagnostic tests the graduation from positive to negative is not clear-cut. Inconclusive results exist also in the Leptospirosis antibody and BVD antigen test. The purpose of re-testing inconclusive positives is to prevent animals with false positive results due to transient cross-reactions from incorrectly being identified as true positives.

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