{"id":174746,"date":"2023-10-25T23:25:40","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T04:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/how-strep-bacteria-outsmart-your-immune-system-and-why-it-matters-for-treatment"},"modified":"2023-10-25T23:25:40","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T04:25:40","slug":"how-strep-bacteria-outsmart-your-immune-system-and-why-it-matters-for-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/how-strep-bacteria-outsmart-your-immune-system-and-why-it-matters-for-treatment","title":{"rendered":"How strep bacteria outsmart your immune system and why it matters for treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-strep-bacteria-outsmart-your-immune-system-and-why-it-matters-for-treatment2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ud83e\udda0\ud83d\udd2c\ud83d\udc8a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news-medical.net\/news\/20231025\/How-strep-bacteria-outsmart-your-immune-system-and-why-it-matters-for-treatment\">https:\/\/www.news-medical.net\/news\/20231025\/How-strep-bacteri\u2026-treatment<\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Researchers discover that Group A streptococcal infections alter immunoglobulin G (IgG) homeostasis to evade the immune system, affecting the transition from local to systemic infections. The study also raises concerns about the effectiveness of antibody-based therapies, as the bacteria\u2019s virulence factors can degrade therapeutic antibodies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83e\udda0\ud83d\udd2c\ud83d\udc8a https:\/\/www.news-medical.net\/news\/20231025\/How-strep-bacteri\u2026-treatment Researchers discover that Group A streptococcal infections alter immunoglobulin G (IgG) homeostasis to evade the immune system, affecting the transition from local to systemic infections. The study also raises concerns about the effectiveness of antibody-based therapies, as the bacteria\u2019s virulence factors can degrade therapeutic antibodies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}