title: Field recognition of pathogen and HIV self.
abstract: There is evidence to suggest that the HIV virus is never presented clearly and completely to the immune system. It is possible there is an additional recognition system in skin it misses. By bypassing the skin in inoculation or neutralizing skin presentation in semen, an envelope that may modify immune response, pathogen may get by this additional field recognition system. In an effort to engage this additional recognition system for more information about the virus, the immune system may end up purposefully mutating the virus for the wrong reason inadvertently establishing a repertoire of HIV self. The unique circumstances of HIV presentation may cause this proposed additional normally compatible recognition system to turn into a competing system.
authors.affiliation: University Station, Syracuse, NY, USA.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kerven
mesh_terms: D006678:HIV / Q000276:immunology / Q000502:physiology*; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000276:immunology*; D006801:Humans; D018448:Models, Immunological; D013816:Thermodynamics