US 7,611,910 B2
	Method for diagnosis of alzheimer's disease
Brian J. Balin, Paoli, Pa. (US); J. Todd Abrams, Merion, Pa. (US); Alan P. Hudson, Novi, Mich. (US); and Judith A. Whittum-Hudson, Novi, Mich. (US)
Assigned to Intracell, LLC, Merion, Pa. (US)
Filed on Jan. 12, 2007, as Appl. No. 11/622,641.
Application 11/622641 is a division of application No. 09/227749, filed on Jan. 08, 1999, granted, now 7,189,703, filed on Mar. 13, 2007.
Claims priority of provisional application 60/070855, filed on Jan. 09, 1998.
Prior Publication US 2007/0135360 A1, Jun. 14, 2007
Int. Cl. G01N 33/53 (2006.01)

U.S. Cl. 436—811

2 Claims

1. A method of diagnosing Alzheimer's disease in a human patient suspected of having Alzheimer's disease, wherein said human does not exhibit symptoms of multiple sclerosis or menginoencephalitis, said method comprising obtaining a cerebrospinal fluid sample from said patient, determining whether said cerebral spinal fluid sample contains Chlamydia pneumoniae, wherein the presence of Chlamydia pneumoniae in said sample is an indication that said patient has Alzheimer's disease.