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Article: Alleged nanobacteria do not cause calcification of arterial plaque. (Letters to the Editor).
- Article from:
- Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients
- Article date:
- November 1, 2002
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Editor:
Pathologic calcification of atherosclerotic plaque, dental plaque and kidney stones have been attributed to a previously unreported and putative bacterial species, Nanobacterium sanguineum, by Finnish researchers, Kajander and Ciftcioglu. (1) That work has since been duplicated by scientists at NIH, who made identical observations, but concluded that biomineralization was caused by the nonliving, nucleating activities of self-propagating microcrystalline centers (nidi), which form macromolecules of calcium carbonate phosphate apatite. (2)
These submicroscopic (submicron) structures can be transferred in a deceptively life-like manner through ...