CMV Infection Images

Clearance of CMV virions by innate immune cells (macrophages) in the placenta of an immune woman (left). Virus replication in villous cytotrophoblasts underlying syncytiotrophoblasts in the placenta of a woman with primary CMV infection (right).

CMV replicates in the pregnant uterus and infects glandular epithelium and decidual cells (left). Infected differentiating cytotrophoblasts in a remodeled uterine blood vessel (right).