Placental Syncytiotrophoblast Constitutes a Major Barrier to Vertical Transmission of Listeria monocytogenes

• Jennifer R. Robbins,

  Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Program in Microbial Pathogenesis and Host Defense, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Biology, Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

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• Kasia M. Skrzypczynska ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kasia M. Skrzypczynska, Varvara B. Zeldovich

  Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Program in Microbial Pathogenesis and Host Defense, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America

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• Varvara B. Zeldovich ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kasia M. Skrzypczynska, Varvara B. Zeldovich

  Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Program in Microbial Pathogenesis and Host Defense, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America

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• Mirhan Kapidzic,

  Affiliation Institute for Regeneration Medicine, Human Embryonic Stem Cell Program, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America

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• Anna I. Bakardjiev

  * E-mail: bakardjieva@peds.ucsf.edu

  Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Program in Microbial Pathogenesis and Host Defense, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America

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