**5. Conclusions**

The CP infection may be the relevant cause of cerebral strokes as an agent that causes and/or exacerbates atherosclerosis, or it could be a just one of the complicating agents of atherosclerosis through mechanisms of exacerbating the atherosclerotic plaque inflammation.

Further large-scale and prospective studies could find answers to this puzzle, on the condition that the exact diagnosis of recent or ongoing CP diagnosis could be established.
