Cytomegalovirus Is Present in a Very High Proportion of Brains from Vascular Dementia Patients
We previously found that herpes simplex type 1 virus (HSV1), when present in brain of carriers of the apolipoprotein E type 4 allele is a strong risk factor for Alzheimer's disease. To find if HSV1 or certain other herpesviruses are involved in vascular dementia (VaD), we searched post mortem b...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2002-02-01
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Series: | Neurobiology of Disease |
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Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0969996101904656 |