Pathogenesis of placentitis in the goat inoculated with Brucella abortus. I. Gross and histologic lesions
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Pathogenesis of placentitis in the goat inoculated with Brucella abortus. I. Gross and histologic lesions
Abstract
Pregnant goats were given Brucella abortus intravenously or in uterine arteries, and tissues from the uterus and placentae were examined at various post-inoculation intervals to study mechanisms of placental infection. Placentitis was present by 5 days post-inoculation and abortions occurred within 11 days. B. abortus was identified in placentae by light microscopy and immunoperoxidase techniques. B. abortus was first seen in erythrophagocytic trophoblasts of the placentome. Subsequently, high numbers of B. abortus were seen in periplacentomal chorioallantoic trophoblasts. Trophoblast necrosis, chorioallantoic ulceration, and large numbers of B. abortus in chorionic villi were present in later stages of infection. These results suggest that entry and replication of B. abortus in trophoblasts precede placentome and fetal infection and that trophoblasts are the source of B. abortus for these tissues. Experimental caprine brucellosis closely resembles bovine and ovine brucellosis and it provides a model to study the intracellular development of B. abortus in trophoblasts.
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