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SUBMITTER: Watanabe K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2607286 | biostudies-literature | 2008
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Watanabe Kenta K Tachibana Masato M Tanaka Satoshi S Furuoka Hidefumi H Horiuchi Motohiro M Suzuki Hiroshi H Watarai Masahisa M
BMC microbiology 20081205
<h4>Background</h4>The cell tropism of Brucella abortus, a causative agent of brucellosis and facultative intracellular pathogen, in the placenta is thought to be a key event of infectious abortion, although the molecular mechanism for this is largely unknown. There is a higher degree of bacterial colonization in the placenta than in other organs and many bacteria are detected in trophoblast giant (TG) cells in the placenta. In the present study, we investigated mechanism of B. abortus invasion ...[more]