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Although reports of SARS-CoV-2 vertical transmission remain rare, several studies showed that maternal infection during pregnancy can induce histomorphological and inflammatory alterations in the placenta. However, the permissiveness of human trophoblasts to various variants of the virus remains poorly characterized. In this study, human primary villous cytotrophoblasts isolated from term placentas, along with trophoblastic cell lines BeWo, JEG-3, and HIPEC-65 were infected with the ancestral SARS-CoV-2 strain, which disseminated worldwide in early 2020. Permissiveness was assessed with quantitative RT-PCR, immunostaining of viral protein Nucleocapsid, and plaque assays. To investigate viral entry routes, cells were treated with Camostat mesylate (an inhibitor of the co-entry factor TMPRSS2) or chloroquine phosphate (an endosomal entry inhibitor) and viral fitness was assessed by plaque assays. Primary villous cytotrophoblasts and JEG-3 cells were also tested for infection with three pre-omicron SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern. Our results show that primary villous cytotrophoblasts are permissive to all tested SARS-CoV-2 strains in vitro. Infection with the ancestral SARS-CoV-2 strain relies mainly on a non-canonical endosomal entry pathway. Notably, JEG-3 cells represent an appropriate and convenient model for studying trophoblast infection by SARS-CoV-2, as they exhibit high permissiveness to the ancestral strain, and the SARS-CoV-2 entry pathway is similar to that in villous cytotrophoblasts. 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