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. 2017 Jul 29;75(7):ftx093. doi: 10.1093/femspd/ftx093

Table 1.

Viral infections in vivo and in vitro from different placental and embryo tissues.

Family Type of virus Tissue or cell culture Reference
Herpesviridae Epstein-Barr virus Extravillous trophoblast, syncytiotrophoblast and corium Devergne et al. (2001)
Varicela virus Fetal membranes and derived mesenchymal stromal-stem cells Avanzi et al. (2013)
Human cytomegalovirus Decidua, villi, amniotic membrane and syncytiotrophoblast and derived mesenchymal stromal-stem cells Avanzi et al. (2013); Weisblum et al. (2014); Tabata et al. (2016)
Herpes simplex 1 y 2 Extravillous trophoblast, cytotrophoblast (in vitro) and fetal membranes Avanzi et al. (2013)
Herpesvirus 6 Syncytiotrophoblasts, embryo Csoma et al. (2002); Avanzi et al. (2013)
Filoviridae Ebola virus Syncytiotrophoblast and mononuclear cells of placenta Muehlenbachs et al. (2016)
Retroviridae Human immunodeficiency virus Hofbauer cells and amniotic fluid Johnson and Chakraborty (2016)
T-cell leukemia-lymphoma virus Syncytiotrophoblasts (in vitro) Toth et al. (1995)
Picornaviridae Coxsackievirus Trophoblast and amnion Delorme-Axford et al. (2013)
Hepatitis A virus Fetus from infected mother Renge et al. (2002)
Papillomaviridae Human papilloma virus Amnion, placental cells, uterine epithelium, syncytiotrophoblast Freitas et al. (2013)
Hepadnaviridae Hepatitis B virus Umbilical cord and fetus, polymorphonuclear cells, Hofbauer cells and cytotrophoblast (in vitro) Wang et al. (2008); Bai et al. (2014); Zhou and Wang (2015)
Hepeviridae Hepatitis E Placental villous and placental connective tissue and syncytiotrophoblast tissue Bose et al. (2014)
Parvoviridae Parvovirus B19 Amniotic fluid, extravillous trophoblast (in vitro), fetal progenitor cells Parry et al. (1997)
Adeno-associated virus Amnion and embryo Burguete et al. (1999)
Flaviviridae Hepatitis C virus Primary trophoblast (in vitro), fetus, placental tissue Ranger-Rogez et al. (2002)
Dengue virus Adventitious tunic, umbilical and placental cord, macrophages, placental villi and endothelium Dos Santos et al. (2016)
Zika virus Hofbauer cells, trophoblasts, cytotrophoblast, decidua, chorio-amniotic membrane, umbilical cord, chorionic villi El Costa et al. (2016); Tabata et al. (2016)
Togaviridae Rubella virus Chorionic villi, placental basal plate and fetus Terry et al. (1986); Lazar et al. (2015)