Nanobacteria Do Exist and actively participate in the Calcification of Arterial Plaque. (Letters to the Editor).

From: Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients | Date: January 1, 2003 | Copyright information

Editor:

Response to November 2002 issue and Elmer M. Cranton's letter "Alleged Nanobacteria Do Not Cause Calcification of Arterial Plaque."

The cause of pathological calcification, including atherosclerosis, dental pulp stones and kidney stones, used to be an enigma, but science is rapidly clarifying the relationship between nanobacterial infections and disease. The life-long incidence of kidney stones appears to have increased throughout the 20th century, and now occurs in up to 15% of the population. (1) Nanobacteria have been linked to human kidney stones and ...

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