title: Innate immune evasion by staphylococci.
abstract: When bacteria invade the human host, they are directly confronted with a serious threat, the human innate immune system. This chapter describes the challenge that a staphylococci face and recent findings on how this bacterium counteracts the massive attack of this innate immune system. In order to survive within the human host, staphylococci have evolved a wide variety of small, excreted proteins that interfere with subsequent steps of the human innate immune system cascade.
authors.affiliation: Medical Microbiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Karin Ellen
authors.initials: KE
authors.lastname: Veldkamp
authors.forename: Jos A G
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: van Strijp
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D057131:Immune Evasion / Q000502:physiology*; D007113:Immunity, Innate / Q000502:physiology*; D013210:Staphylococcus / Q000502:physiology*