title: Editorial: Bacterial Exotoxins: How Bacteria Fight the Immune System.
authors.affiliation: Bacterial Pathogenesis Unit, Laboratory of Clinical Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health , Bethesda, MD , USA.
authors.forename: Inka
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Sastalla
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford University , Stanford, CA , USA.
authors.forename: Denise M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Monack
authors.affiliation: Zentrum für Infektiologie, Medizinische Mikrobiologie und Hygiene, Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg , Heidelberg , Germany.
authors.forename: Katharina F
authors.initials: KF
authors.lastname: Kubatzky
keywords: adaptive immunity; bacterial effector protein; bacterial toxins; immune evasion; infectious diseases; innate immune response; quorum sensing; super antigen