Microbial Vertical Transmission during Human Pregnancy

Cell Host and Microbe

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 561-567

  Arora, Nitin ^a,b   Sadovsky, Yoel ^a,c   Dermody, Terence S ^a,b   Coyne, Carolyn B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytomegalovirus; Listeria monocytogenes; placenta; Toxoplasma gondii; trophoblast; vertical transmission; Zika virus

Indexed keywords

CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; MICROBIOLOGY; NEWBORN; PATHOGENICITY; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; SYPHILIS; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TRANSMISSION; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY; ZIKA FEVER; ZIKA VIRUS;

CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; SYPHILIS; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; ZIKA VIRUS; ZIKA VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 85019118723     PISSN: 19313128     EISSN: 19346069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2017.04.007     Document Type: Review

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