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Growth of Listeria monocytogenes in the guinea pig placenta and role of cell-to-cell spread in fetal infection.
The Journal of infectious diseases - 1 Jun 2005
Bakardjiev Anna I, Stacy Brian A, Portnoy Daniel A
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Listeria monocytogenes causes foodborne outbreaks that lead to infection in human and other mammalian fetuses. To elucidate the molecular and cellular mechanisms involved in transplacental transmission, we characterized placental-fetal infection in pregnant guinea pigs inoculated with wild-type (wt) or mutant L. monocytogenes strains. The wt strain increased in number in the placenta by >1000-fold during the...
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