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SUBMITTER: Dreses-Werringloer U
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2730674 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Dreses-Werringloer Ute U Bhuiyan Mohammad M Zhao Yinghao Y Gérard Hervé C HC Whittum-Hudson Judith A JA Hudson Alan P AP
International journal of medical microbiology : IJMM 20080930 3
Previous studies from this laboratory provided evidence that the intracellular bacterial pathogen Chlamydophila (Chlamydia) pneumoniae is present in the late-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD) brain. Here we report culture of the organism from two AD brain samples, each of which originated from a different geographic region of North America. Culturable organisms were detectable after one and two passages in HEp-2 cells for the two samples. Both isolates, designated Tor-1 and Phi-1, were demonstrated ...[more]