Innate immune evasion by staphylococci.
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.
Veldkamp
Karin Ellen
KE
Medical Microbiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
van Strijp
Jos A G
JA
D006801:Humans; D057131:Immune Evasion / Q000502:physiology*; D007113:Immunity, Innate / Q000502:physiology*; D013210:Staphylococcus / Q000502:physiology*