Full-Term Human Placental Macrophages Eliminate Through an IFN-γ Autocrine Loop.

The intracellular bacterium is responsible for Q fever, an infectious disease that increases the risk of abortion, preterm labor, and stillbirth in pregnant women. It has been shown that replicates in BeWo trophoblast cell line and inhibits the activation and maturation of decidual dendritic cells. Although tissue macrophages are known to be targeted by , no studies have investigated the interplay between placental macrophages and .