Dogs with HIV?

[James Scutero]

In article <3rp29l$j0o at miasun.med.miami.edu> 
tmiller at newssun.med.miami.edu (Todd Miller - Pharmacology) writes:
>I wonder what the basis of the following observations are.  Obviously,
>there is some kind of (non-specific?) cross reaction, but...
>
But what? The tests weren't considered to be HIV positive, they were
indeterminant because they cross-reacted with SOME of the proteins.

>Unique Identifier
>  90352614
>Authors
>  Strandstrom HV.  Higgins JR.  Mossie K.  Theilen GH.
>Institution
>  College of Veterinary Medicine, Helsinki, Finland.
>Title
>  Studies with canine sera that contain antibodies which recognize human
>  immunodeficiency virus structural proteins.
>Source
>  Cancer Research.  50(17 Suppl):5628S-5630S, 1990 Sep 1.
>Abstract
>  In a serological survey, using the immunoblotting technique, we found that
>  substantial numbers of dog sera from both normal and diseased dogs,
>  including dogs with neoplasia, reacted with one or more human
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>  immunodeficiency virus (HIV) recombinant proteins. 

None of the cross-reactions of the dog sera caused a positive result on an 
HIV Western blot test even when all of the standard measures of a positive
result are taking into consideration.

-James M. Scutero, original proponent of misc.health.aids
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