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Titolo	In search=20 of HIV
Autore	Fabio Franchi

Abstract

Abstract:
The diagnosis of HIV infection is made according = to the=20 results of particular tests, of which the most important is the Western = Blot,=20 also named =93confirmatory test=94. This one, on its turn, may or may = not be=20 corroborated by other tests. But, a methodological and comparative = analysis of=20 anyone of them let one conclude for a complete lack of specificity (and = real=20 validity). Antibody tests, viral culture, direct detection of the virus, = electronic micrographs of HIV, HIV isolation allow one to find = foundamental=20 errors in certain premises and in some essential logical constructions. =
The=20 argument that what is not proved by single tests can be proved by them = together=20 is not valid from a scientific point of view. The paradoxical result of = this=20 critic examination of the matter is that anyone of the phenomena = attributed to=20 the virus is explainable without the need to postulate its existence; = Electronic=20 micrographs of what has been considered =93pure HIV=94 - and only = recently published=20 - seem to confirm this thesis completely.=20

According to the AIDS infectious theory, the HIV infection is active = since=20 from the first phases and during the years and it is very difficult for = the=20 organism to get rid of it. Proper tests reveal its presence. Those which = at the=20 moment are at our disposal are essential not only for the diagnosis (2), = but=20 they are used as indicative elements with prognostic and therapeutical = purposes=20 (3).
As science for definition is open to every control and all its=20 demonstrations must be proved on the basis of logical rules, this study = has the=20 object of verifying if there is effective relation among the different = =93AIDS=20 tests=94 and the meaning attributed to them. We shall examine the most = important:=20 the tests of the antibodies (the ELISA, the Western Blot and the p24), = the viral=20 culture, the genetic identification with amplification methods, the = viral=20 isolation, the micrographs of HIV. We shall analyse and criticize the = procedure=20 followed at present, as presented in the updated specialized texts = including=20 =93AIDS, Biology, Diagnosis, Treatment and Prevention=94 (2) published = in 1997,=20 edited by several top researchers including A. Fauci, former manager of = the=20 National Institute of Health.
In other words we tried to answer to = the=20 crucial question as the great clinician and science methodology scholar, = prof.=20 Augusto Murri would have formulated it: =93Why have I to believe that = the AIDS=20 test meaning is equivalent to an infection with the HIV virus?=94 He = thought it=20 was essential, during one's life, to be in the habit of criticizing = before of=20 accepting information.