Could a Bacterial Pathogen Play a Role in Alzheimer's Disease? (3 of 3) (IMAGE)

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Could a Bacterial Pathogen Play a Role in Alzheimer's Disease? (3 of 3)

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Stephen Dominy, Co-founder and CSO of Cortexyme. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Jan. 23rd, 2019, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by S.S. Dominy at Cortexyme, Inc. in San Francisco, CA, and colleagues was titled, "Porphyromonas gingivalis in Alzheimer's disease brains: Evidence for disease causation and treatment with small-molecule inhibitors."

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Cortexyme, Inc.

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