Alzheimer's neuroborreliosis with trans-synaptic spread of infection and neurofibrillary tangles derived from intraneuronal spirochetes

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 822-825

  MacDonald, Alan B ^a  

^a St Catherine of Siena Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BORRELIA INFECTION; BRAIN INFECTION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EVALUATION; HYPOTHESIS; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIROCHETE;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYLOID; BORRELIA; BORRELIA INFECTIONS; CYTOPLASM; DEMENTIA; DNA; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLES; SENILE PLAQUES; SYNAPSES;

ANIMALIA; BORRELIA; MEASLES VIRUS; PRIMATES;

EID: 33846338747     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2006.08.043     Document Type: Article

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