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Lenore Pereira is Professor of Microbiology at the University of California, San Francisco. She is a specialist in transmission of Cytomegalovirus from mother to baby across the placenta.

Some of her published research papers in this field include:

Pereira, L., Petitt, M., Fong, A., Tsuge, M., Tabata, T., Fang-Hoover, J., Maidji, E., Zydek, M., Zhou, Y., Inoue, N., et al. (2014). Intrauterine growth restriction caused by underlying congenital cytomegalovirus infection. J Infect Dis 209, 1573-1584.

Maidji, E., Nigro, G., Tabata, T., McDonagh, S., Nozawa, N., Shiboski, S., Muci, S., Anceschi, M.M., Aziz, N., Adler, S.P., et al. (2010). Antibody treatment promotes compensation for human cytomegalovirus-induced pathogenesis and a hypoxia-like condition in placentas with congenital infection. Am. J. Pathol. 177, 1298-1310.

Nozawa, N., Fang-Hoover, J., Tabata, T., Maidji, E., and Pereira, L. (2009). Cytomegalovirus-specific, high-avidity IgG with neutralizing activity in maternal circulation enriched in the fetal bloodstream. J. Clin. Virol. 46 Suppl 4, S58-63.

Tabata, T., Kawakatsu, H., Maidji, E., Sakai, T., Sakai, K., Fang-Hoover, J., Aiba, M., Sheppard, D., and Pereira, L. (2008). Induction of an epithelial integrin alphavbeta6 in human cytomegalovirus-infected endothelial cells leads to activation of transforming growth factor-beta1 and increased collagen production. Am. J. Pathol. 172, 1127-1140.

Pereira, L., and Maidji, E. (2008). Cytomegalovirus infection in the human placenta: maternal immunity and developmentally regulated receptors on trophoblasts converge. Curr Top Microbiol Immunol 325, 383-395.

Pereira, L., Maidji, E., Fisher, S.J., McDonagh, S., and Tabata, T. (2007). HCMV persistence in the population: potential transplacental.

Maidji, E., Genbacev, O., Chang, H.T., and Pereira, L. (2007). Developmental regulation of human cytomegalovirus receptors in cytotrophoblasts correlates with distinct replication sites in the placenta. J. Virol. 81, 4701-4712.

Pereira, L., Maidji, E., McDonagh, S., and Tabata, T. (2006). Routes of CMV transmission and infection at the uterine-placental interface. In Cytomegaloviruses: Molecular Biology and Immunology, M. Reddehase, ed. (Norfolk, U.K., Caister Academic Press), pp. 29-48.

McDonagh, S., Maidji, E., Chang, H.T., and Pereira, L. (2006). Patterns of human cytomegalovirus infection in term placentas: a preliminary analysis. J. Clin. Virol. 35, 210-215.

Maidji, E., McDonagh, S., Genbacev, O., Tabata, T., and Pereira, L. (2006). Maternal antibodies enhance or prevent cytomegalovirus infection in the placenta by neonatal fc receptor-mediated transcytosis. Am. J. Pathol. 168, 1210-1226.

Pereira, L., Maidji, E., McDonagh, S., and Tabata, T. (2005). Insights into viral transmission at the uterine-placental interface. Trends Microbiol 13, 164-174.

McDonagh, S., Maidji, E., Ma, W., Chang, H.T., Fisher, S., and Pereira, L. (2004). Viral and bacterial pathogens at the maternal-fetal interface. J. Infect. Dis. 190, 826-834.

Pereira, L., Maidji, E., McDonagh, S., Genbacev, O., and Fisher, S. (2003). Human cytomegalovirus transmission from the uterus to the placenta correlates with the presence of pathogenic bacteria and maternal immunity. J. Virol. 77, 13301-13314.

Maidji, E., Percivalle, E., Gerna, G., Fisher, S., and Pereira, L. (2002). Transmission of human cytomegalovirus from infected uterine microvascular endothelial cells to differentiating/invasive placental cytotrophoblasts. Virology 304, 53-69.

Fisher, S., Genbacev, O., Maidji, E., and Pereira, L. (2000). Human cytomegalovirus infection of placental cytotrophoblasts in vitro and in utero: implications for transmission and pathogenesis. J. Virol. 74, 6808-6820.