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Could Alzheimer’s be caused by an infection? | Ruth Itzhaki


Professor Ruth Itzhaki was referenced in an article in The Guardian 'Could Alzheimer’s be caused by an infection?'

"When Prof Ruth Itzhaki from Oxford University’s Institute of Population Ageing – who has done more than any other scientist to advance the HSV-1 theory of Alzheimer’s – examined postmortem brain samples from patients, she found greater amounts of the virus’s DNA than in people who had not died of the disease."

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