Respiratory syncytial virus exhibits differential tropism for distinct human placental cell types with Hofbauer cells acting as a permissive reservoir for infection

• Vladimir Bokun,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Center for Pediatric Research, Department of Inflammation and Immunity, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

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• John J. Moore,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

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• Robert Moore,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

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• Carrie C. Smallcombe,

  Roles Investigation, Visualization

  Affiliation Center for Pediatric Research, Department of Inflammation and Immunity, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4174-0251

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• Terri J. Harford,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Center for Pediatric Research, Department of Inflammation and Immunity, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6590-0673

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• Fariba Rezaee,

  Roles Investigation, Supervision

  Affiliation Center for Pediatric Research, Department of Inflammation and Immunity, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7625-3341

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• Frank Esper ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Frank Esper, Giovanni Piedimonte

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Center for Pediatric Research, Department of Inflammation and Immunity, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, Center for Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Cleveland Clinic Children’s, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0102-7830

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• Giovanni Piedimonte

  Contributed equally to this work with: Frank Esper, Giovanni Piedimonte

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: gpiedimonte@tulane.edu

  Current address: Tulane University, Office of Research, New Orleans, United States of America

  Affiliation Center for Pediatric Research, Department of Inflammation and Immunity, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1640-1928

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