Dr. Brian Balin and his team at Johns Hopkins and the Hahnemann School of Medicine identified Chlamydia pneumonia in tissue adjacent to Alzheimer’s plaque. USCF studied cells adjacent to cancer; and found cells which were not cancer but were not normal, and had the same molecular properties as Chlamydia. The Mayo Clinic found polyps adjacent to colon cancer had different “genetic” properties, which were not cancer but were not normal.

The study of adjacent tissue appears to be an important target for research into infectious pathogens causing cancer and other chronic diseases.