title: Neutrophil extracellular traps in bacterial infections: strategies for escaping from killing.
abstract: Neutrophils are among the first responders to virulent factors. They kill microbes by phagocytosis, oxidative burst, and as neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs). NETs production leads to unique cell death depending on, inter alia, reactive oxygen species (ROS). Recently a number of studies highlight the mechanism of bacterial escape from extracellular traps; the process that may influence the outcome of bacterial infections.
authors.affiliation: Department of Laboratory Diagnostic and Clinical Immunology of Developmental Age, Warsaw Medical University, Marszalkowska 24, 00-576 Warsaw, Poland. magdalena.arazna@wum.edu.pl
authors.forename: Magdalena
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Arazna
authors.forename: Michal Przemyslaw
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: Pruchniak
authors.forename: Urszula
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Demkow
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001424:Bacterial Infections / Q000276:immunology*; D005110:Extracellular Space / Q000276:immunology; D006801:Humans; D007113:Immunity, Innate / Q000276:immunology; D018375:Neutrophil Activation / Q000276:immunology*; D009504:Neutrophils / Q000276:immunology*