Chlamydia pneumoniae in Alzheimer's disease pathology
Lalita Subedi,
Bhakta Prasad Gaire,
Yosef Koronyo
et al.
Abstract:While recent advances in diagnostics and therapeutics offer promising new approaches for Alzheimer's disease (AD) diagnosis and treatment, there is still an unmet need for an effective remedy, suggesting new avenues of research are required. Besides many plausible etiologies for AD pathogenesis, mounting evidence supports a possible role for microbial infections. Various microbes have been identified in the postmortem brain tissues of human AD patients. Among bacterial pathogens in AD, Chlamydia pneumoniae (Cp… Show more
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