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Neutrophil evasion strategies by Streptococcus pneumoniae and Staphylococcus aureus

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Humans are well equipped to defend themselves against bacteria. The innate immune system employs diverse mechanisms to recognize, control and initiate a response that can destroy millions of different microbes. Microbes that evade the sophisticated innate immune system are able to escape detection and could become pathogens. The pathogens Streptococcus pneumoniae and Staphylococcus aureus are particularly successful due to the development of a wide variety of virulence strategies for bacterial pathogenesis and they invest significant efforts towards mechanisms that allow for neutrophil evasion. Neutrophils are a primary cellular defense and can rapidly kill invading microbes, which is an indispensable function for maintaining host health. This review compares the key features of Streptococcus pneumoniae and Staphylococcus aureus in epidemiology, with a specific focus on virulence mechanisms utilized to evade neutrophils in bacterial pathogenesis. It is important to understand the complex interactions between pathogenic bacteria and neutrophils so that we can disrupt the ability of pathogens to cause disease.

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B.G.J Surewaard is partially funded by Marie Curie Actions (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IOF; grant no. 627575) and a postgraduate fellowship from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. M.L. Lewis is supported by the Branch Out Foundation. We thank Justin F. Deniset for carfully proofreading the manuscript.

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Lewis, M.L., Surewaard, B.G.J. Neutrophil evasion strategies by Streptococcus pneumoniae and Staphylococcus aureus . Cell Tissue Res 371, 489–503 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00441-017-2737-2

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