title: Flying Under the Radar: Immune Evasion by Group B Streptococcus.
abstract: Type I IFN production is an important host defense mechanism against Gram-positive Streptococci. In this issue of Cell Host & Microbe, Andrade et al. (2016) report that Group B Streptococcus limits type I IFN by expressing a surface phosphodiesterase that degrades extracellular bacterial cyclic dinucleotides, thereby promoting virulence.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA; Molecular and Cellular Biology Program, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
authors.forename: Adelle P
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: McFarland
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA. Electronic address: jjwoodwa@uw.edu.
authors.forename: Joshua J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Woodward
mesh_terms: D057131:Immune Evasion; D013291:Streptococcus; D013292:Streptococcus agalactiae / Q000276:immunology*; D014774:Virulence