Chlamydia pneumoniae & Alzheimers
By Linda on Oct 30, 2010 in Infections | comments(0)
Full article: http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1471-2202-11-121.pdf
Excerpt:
Conclusions
Anti-C. pneumoniae antibodies, obtained commercially, identified both typical intracellular and atypical extracellular C. pneumoniae antigens in frontal and temporal cortices of the AD brain. C. pneumoniae, amyloid deposits, and neurofibrillary tangles were present in the same regions of the brain in apposition to one another. Although additional studies are required to conclusively characterize the nature of Chlamydial immunoreactivity in the AD brain, these results further implicate C. pneumoniae infection with the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease
