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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
SUBMITTER: Yannick Le Priol
PROVIDER: E-MEXP-2800 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
PloS one 20101214 12
Q fever is a zoonosis caused by Coxiella burnetii, an obligate intracellular bacterium typically found in myeloid cells. The infection is a source of severe obstetrical complications in humans and cattle and can undergo chronic evolution in a minority of pregnant women. Because C. burnetii is found in the placentas of aborted fetuses, we investigated the possibility that it could infect trophoblasts. Here, we show that C. burnetii infected and replicated in BeWo trophoblasts within phagolysosome ...[more]