Host-Pathogen Interactions in Streptococcal Diseases

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Chhatwal, G. Singh (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology, 368
• Subjects: Medicine.; Immunology.; Medical microbiology.; Vaccines.; Molecular biology.; Public health.; Bacteriology.; Biomedicine.; Medical Microbiology.; Vaccine.; Molecular Medicine.; Public Health.

Streptococci are Gram-positive bacteria that cause a wide spectrum of diseases, such as pharyngitis, necrotizing fasciitis and streptococcal toxic shock syndrome, as well as rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease as sequelae. Antibiotics alone have not been able to control the disease and in sp...