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In the gut of some Alzheimer’s patients lies an unexpected culprit: a common virus that may be silently contributing to their disease. While scientists have long suspected microbes might play a role ...

GROUNDBREAKING research has shown that chronic intestinal infections caused by cytomegalovirus (HCMV) may play a role in a ...

Researchers have discovered a link between a chronic gut infection caused by a common virus and the development of ...

Gut-Brain Connection. People who have CD83+ microglia in their brains also have HCMV (top left) and IgG4 (top right) in their ...

A chronic gut infection caused by a common virus may be linked to the progression of Alzheimer’s disease, a new study has ...

Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) is classified as a DNA herpesvirus. A recent study showed that the HCMV virion contains not only DNA, but also four species of mRNA, indicating that this virus is more ...

Early research links the human cytomegalovirus, a type of herpes virus found in the gut, to the development of Alzheimer’s disease.

Alzheimer’s may sometimes be caused by a herpes virus that travels from the gut to the brain, scientists believe. Experts in the US found evidence of infections in the post-mortem brains of people who ...