Genome Study Shows How Strep Throat Germ Circumvents Our Immune System

Investigators at The Methodist Hospital Research Institute in Houston examined for the first time the long-term response to strep throat on a genome-wide level, shedding light on how group A streptococcus interacts with the patient’s immune system and attempts to circumvent it. Results were published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)…

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Filed under: MRSA / Drug Resistance on February 26th, 2010