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have been poured into AIDS research, all of it based on About the Author: the simplistic belief that the disease is caused solely by a virus. Alan Cantwell, MD, is a retired dermatologist. He is the The role of bacteria in the production of AIDS is largely author of The Cancer Microbe: The Hidden Killer in ignored, even though Luc Montagnier (who first Cancer, AIDS, and other Immune Diseases and Four discovered HIV at the Pasteur Institute) believes that | Women Against Cancer: Bacteria, Cancer and the Origin mycoplasma are a necessary co-factor for HIV to killcells. of Life, both published by Aries Rising Press (PO Box Unfortunately, Montagnier seems to be unaware of my 29532, Los Angeles, CA 90029 USA, published reports and books showing bacteria in AIDS- _http://www.ariesrisingpress.com). damaged tissue, as well as my suggestion that these His books are available from Amazon.com and via Book bacteria represent cell-wall-deficient and mycoplasma-like | Clearing House in the USA at 1 800 431 1579 (toll free). forms of bacteria related to acid-fast mycobacteria. Dr Cantwell can be contacted by email at It is easier to develop treatments against bacteria than it alancantwell@sbcglobal.net. is for viruses. If TB-like bacteria are essential for HIV to lead to AIDS, then antibiotics and possibly vaccines might _ Editor's Note: be developed to combat these disease-producing agents. Dr Cantwell's paper "Do TB-type bacteria cause AIDS" Although acid-fast mycobacteria have been ignored as __ was first published in the Journal of Independent Medical AIDS- and cancer-causing infectious agents, there is | Research (JOIMR 2007; 5(1):1). It is available with enough evidence in the medical literature to warrant —_ photographs and references as a PDF file from the JOIMR further investigation and recognition of these bacteria as web page, http://www.joimr.org/JOIMR-2007-5-1- possible aetiologic agents. coo = Cantwell pdf. Selected References ¢ Cantwell AR Jr. Kaposi's sarcoma tumors associated with mycobacteria in + Alexander-Jackson E. A specific type and variably acid-fast bacteria in vivo in lymph nodes of HIV-positive patients: of microorganism isolated from animal Wo homosexual men. Cutis 1983; "Kaposi sarcoma with mycobacteria" and human cancer: Bacteriology of the 32:58-64,68. and "mycobacterial pseudotumor". Am organism. Growth 1954; 18:37-51. ¢ Cantwell AR Jr. Necroscopic findings J Surg Pathol 1999 Jun; 23(6):656-61. ¢ Bermudez LE, Parker A. Goodman JR. Of variably acid-fast bacteria in a fatal ¢ Montagnier L, Blanchard A. Growth within macrophages increases case of acquired immunodeficiency Mycoplasmas as cofactors in infection the efficiency of Mycobacterium avium syndrome and Kaposi's sarcoma. due to the human immunoceficiency in invading other macrophages by a Growth 1983; 47:129-134. virus. Clin Infect Dis 1993 Aug; 17 complement receptor-independent ° Cantwe 1 AR Jr, Rowe L. African Suppl 1:$309-15. . : pathway. Infect Immun 1997 May; "eosinophilic bodies" in vivo in two ¢ Pease P. Bacterial Origin of Certain 65(5):1916-25. American men with Kaposi's sarcoma Viruses: Identity of the Eaton Agent + Broxmeyer L. Is AIDS really caused and AIDS. J Dermatol Surg Oncol with Streptococcus MG. Nature 1963 by a virus? Med Hypotheses 2003 1985; 11:408-412. Marl16; 197:1132. May; 60(5):671-88. ¢ Cantwell AR Jr. Mycobacterium ¢ Russell W. An address on a * Cantwell AR Jr. Bacteriologic avium intracellulare infection and characteristic organism of cancer. BMJ investigation and histologic immunoblastic sarcoma in a fatal case 1890 Decl3; 2(1563): 1356-1360. observations of variably acid-fast of AIDS. Growth 1986 Spring; ¢ Seibert FB, Feldmann FM, Davis RL, bacteria in three cases of Kaposi's 50(1):32-40. Richmond IS. Morphological, sarcoma. Growth 1981; 45:79-89. ¢ Croxson TS, Ebanks D, Mildvan D. biological, and immunological studies + Cantwell AR Jr, Lawson JW. Atypical mycobacteria and Kaposi's on isolates from tumors and leukemic Necroscopic findings of pleomorphic, sarcoma in the same biopsy specimens. bloods. Ann NY Acad Sci 1970 Oct30; variably acid-fast bacteria in a fatal case NEJM 1983 Jun16; 308(24):1476. 174(2):690-728. of Kaposi's sarcoma. J Dermatol Surg * Diller IC, Diller WF. Intracellular ¢ Wuerthele-Caspe (Livingston) V, Oncol 1981; 11:408-412. acid-fast organisms isolated from Alexander-Jackson E, Anderson JA et al. * Cantwell AR Jr. Variably acid-fast malignant tissues. Trans Am Micros Cultural properties and pathogenicity of bacteria in vivo in a case of reactive Soc 1965; 84:138-148. certain microorganisms obtained from lymph noce hyperplasia occurring in a ¢ Lo SC, Shih JW, Newton PB 3rd, various proliferative and neoplastic young male homosexual. Growth Wong DM, Hayes MM, Benish JR, diseases. Am J Med Sci 1950; 1982; 46:331-336. Wear DJ, Wang RY. Virus-like 220:638-648. * Cantwell AR. Variably acid-fast cell- infectious agent (VLIA) is a novel ¢ Zakowski P, Fligiel S, Berlin GW, wall-ceficient bacteria as a possible pathogenic mycoplasma: Mycoplasma Johnson L Jr. Disseminated cause of dermatologic disease. In: incognitus. Am J Trop Med Hyg 1989; | Mycobacterium avium intracellulare Domingue GJ (ed.), Cell Wall Deficient 41(5):586-600. infection in homosexual men dying of Bacteria, Addison-Wesley, Reading, ¢ Logani S, Lucas DR, Cheng JD, acquired immunodeficiency. JAMA 1982, pp. 321-360. Toachim HL, Adsay NV. Spindle cell 1982 Decl0; 248(22):2980-2. Alan Cantwell, MD, is a retired dermatologist. He is the author of The Cancer Microbe: The Hidden Killer in Cancer, AIDS, and other Immune Diseases and Four Women Against Cancer: Bacteria, Cancer and the Origin of Life, both published by Aries Rising Press (PO Box 29532, Los Angeles, CA 90029 USA, http://www.ariesrisingpress.com). His books are available from Amazon.com and via Book Clearing House in the USA at 1 800 431 1579 (toll free). Dr Cantwell can be contacted by email at alancantwell@sbcglobal.net. 30 ¢ NEXUS About the Author: www.nexusmagazine.com AUGUST — SEPTEMBER 2008