Deadly Australian soil bacterium sheds light on infection hypothesis for Alzheimer’s disease.

Researchers at Griffith University in Queensland, Australia, are the first to completely document the entire route by which bacteria can get into the brain by passing through the nasal mucosa, traveling up the trigeminal nerve, and entering the brain through the brainstem. James St. John and his colleagues infected mice with the soil bacterium Burkholderia […]

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