Abstract:
:Intrauterine infections lead to serious complications for mother and fetus, including preterm birth, maternal and fetal death, and neurological sequelae in the surviving offspring. Improving maternal and child heath is a global priority. Yet, the development of strategies to prevent and treat pregnancy-related diseases has lagged behind progress made in other medical fields. One of the challenges is finding tractable model systems that replicate the human maternal-fetal interface. Animal models offer the ability to study pathogenesis and host defenses in vivo However, the anatomy of the maternal-fetal interface is highly divergent across species. While many tools are available to study host responses in the pregnant mouse model, other animals have placentas that are more similar to that of humans. Here we describe new developments in animal and human tissue models to investigate the pathogenesis of listeriosis at the maternal-fetal interface. We highlight gaps in existing knowledge and make recommendations on how they can be filled.
journal_name
Infect Immunjournal_title
Infection and immunityauthors
Lowe DE,Robbins JR,Bakardjiev AIdoi
10.1128/IAI.00801-17subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2018-05-22 00:00:00issue
6eissn
0019-9567issn
1098-5522pii
IAI.00801-17journal_volume
86pub_type
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journal_title:Infection and immunity
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