• DOI:10.4172/2314-7326.1000247
Corpus ID: 39106700

Alzheimers Disease: The Novel Finding of Intracellular Biofilms

@article{Allen2017AlzheimersDT,
  title={Alzheimers Disease: The Novel Finding of Intracellular Biofilms},
  author={H. Allen and Rina M. Allawh and A. Touati and C. Katsetos and S. Joshi},
  journal={Journal of neuroinfectious diseases},
  year={2017},
  volume={2017}
}

H. Allen, Rina M. Allawh, +2 authors S. Joshi

Published 2017

Biology

Journal of neuroinfectious diseases

We previously have found biofilms in the hippocampi of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) post mortem brain specimens. We had seen them in an extracellular location and noted them to be present in the areas of pathological plaque formation. Other investigators have found the presence of spirochetes (Lyme and dental) in affected (AD) brains, and these have been correlated with Treponema pallidum. In a recent historical comparison of the pathology of syphilis, the histological findings of syphilis and AD… CONTINUE READING

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