October 2007 

 

 

NANO

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ELEMENTS FROM PATHOGENIC MICROORGANISMS

 

by Professor Luc Montagnier, M.D.

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There are many ways by which infectious agents can persist in their host, despite an 

adequate immune response of the latter and the medical use of strong inhibitors of their 
replication. Retroviruses have evolved to find the best solution in order to persist silent in the 
host cell by integrating their DNA into the cell DNA. But bacteria have also learned how to 
stay almost indefinitely in tissues or organs in a resting state, insensitive to antibiotics and 
poorly exposed to immune reactions. It is also a general property of pathogenic 
microorganisms to adapt their genome very rapidly to any targeted reaction against them, 
either endogenous (immune response) or exogenous (treatment). I will describe some new 
phenomenons occurring in bacteria and viruses which may contribute to the chronicity of 
many diseases and to the difficulties of eradicating their infectious origin. 
 
 

The first is what can be best defined as genetic dispersion. When a mycoplasma 

suspension is filtered through filters of 100 and 20 nM, which are pore sizes much lower than 
the average size of these micro-organisms (300 nM), the filtrate is apparently sterile when it is 
cultured in synthetic medium or analysed by DNA PCR and nested DNA PCR. However when 
the filtrate is incubated with human T lymphocytes (previously checked for lack of infection 
by the mycoplasma), we detect again the resurgence of the mycoplasma with all its 
characteristics after 2 or 3 weeks of culture, even when the filtrate is diluted down to 10

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Our current interpretation is that nanostructures existing in the filtrate each contain a 

piece of genetic information which can eventually reconstitute a whole infectious genome with 
the help of eukaryotic cells. This led us to explore the nature of such nanostructures and to 
discover another puzzling phenomenon, which may or may not be related to the first one: it is 
the generation of electromagnetic waves of low frequency (1000 to 5000 Hertz) by the filtrates 
of some bacterial species and viruses in appropriate aqueous dilutions. It is in fact a resonance 
emission subsequent to excitation by very low frequencies coming from the electromagnetic 
background.  
 
 

Classical pathogenic bacteria such as E. Coli, Staphylococcus, Streptococcus, 

Clostridium, etc., as well as mycoplasma and viruses like HIV, are sources of the structures 
emitting the signals. These signals are approximately all similar, although a more refined 
analysis may find species-specific differences. The plasmas of individuals chronically infected 
by the same agents also yield similar signals. The nature and significance for pathogenesis of 
the molecules involved will be discussed. 
 

                                                           

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