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Altered bacterial communities in the gut could be an indicator for PD

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"...unknown pathogen intrudes into the body through two ports of entry: the nose or the gastrointestinal tract. Once there, it sets a pathological process in motion, above all the misfolding of the protein alpha-synuclein." --- makes you wonder if this unknown pathogen could be borrelia burgdorfery, the lyme bug, although it enters through blood stream.

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