Alzheimer’s Disease & Stroke – Infection to Blame?

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Excerpt:

Treponema pallidum and Borrelia burgdorferi spirochetes, in late syphilis and late Lyme disease can cause cerebral infarct and cognitive decline (dementia) in parenchymatous neurosyphilis and Lyme neuroborreliosis.

The cognitive decline (dementia)  is caused by the direct invasion of brain parenchyma by spirochetes (direct parenchymal involvement) years or decades follwoing the primary infection.

Cerebral infarcts in the meningovascular form of neurospirochetoses (Meningovascular form of neurosyphilis and Lyme neuroborreliosis) is not caused by spirochetal invasion of brain tissue. The parenchymal involvement is secondary to the occlusion of the affected meningeal arteries. It may lead to”vascular” dementia.