Infected Dendritic Cells Facilitate Systemic Dissemination and Transplacental Passage of the Obligate Intracellular Parasite Neospora caninum in Mice

Esther Collantes-Fernandez; Romanico B. G. Arrighi; Gema Álvarez-García; Jessica M. Weidner; Javier Regidor-Cerrillo; John C. Boothroyd; Luis M. Ortega-Mora; Antonio Barragan

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0032123

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Infected Dendritic Cells Facilitate Systemic Dissemination and Transplacental Passage of the Obligate Intracellular Parasite Neospora caninum in Mice

Esther Collantes-Fernandez ,

* E-mail: esthercf@vet.ucm.es (EC); antonio.barragan@ki.se (AB)

Affiliations Center for Infectious Medicine, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Swedish Institute for Communicable Disease Control, Stockholm, Sweden, SALUVET, Animal Health Department, Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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Romanico B. G. Arrighi,

Affiliations Center for Infectious Medicine, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Swedish Institute for Communicable Disease Control, Stockholm, Sweden
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Gema Álvarez-García,

Affiliation SALUVET, Animal Health Department, Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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Jessica M. Weidner,

Affiliations Center for Infectious Medicine, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Swedish Institute for Communicable Disease Control, Stockholm, Sweden
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Javier Regidor-Cerrillo,

Affiliation SALUVET, Animal Health Department, Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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John C. Boothroyd,

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America
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Luis M. Ortega-Mora,

Affiliation SALUVET, Animal Health Department, Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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Antonio Barragan

* E-mail: esthercf@vet.ucm.es (EC); antonio.barragan@ki.se (AB)

Affiliations Center for Infectious Medicine, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Swedish Institute for Communicable Disease Control, Stockholm, Sweden
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Infected Dendritic Cells Facilitate Systemic Dissemination and Transplacental Passage of the Obligate Intracellular Parasite Neospora caninum in Mice

Esther Collantes-Fernandez,
Romanico B. G. Arrighi,
Gema Álvarez-García,
Jessica M. Weidner,
Javier Regidor-Cerrillo,
John C. Boothroyd,
Luis M. Ortega-Mora,
Antonio Barragan

Published: March 5, 2012
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0032123

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