{"id":243159,"date":"2026-08-25T05:03:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T10:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/silent-strep-a-infections-may-explain-immunity-gained-by-adulthood"},"modified":"2026-08-25T05:03:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T10:03:21","slug":"silent-strep-a-infections-may-explain-immunity-gained-by-adulthood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/silent-strep-a-infections-may-explain-immunity-gained-by-adulthood","title":{"rendered":"Silent Strep A infections may explain immunity gained by adulthood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/silent-strep-a-infections-may-explain-immunity-gained-by-adulthood.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Exposure to Streptococcus pyogenes (Strep A) that causes mild or no symptoms can trigger the body\u2019s immune response and naturally build protection, potentially solving a nearly 100-year-old mystery of immunity.<\/p>\n<p>New Griffith University research, with the help of clinical scientists from the Murdoch Children\u2019s Research Institute (MCRI), investigated how immunity developed over time as infection rates declined with age, suggesting progressive immune protection. The paper \u201cSubclinical exposure to Streptococcus pyogenes drives the development of long-lived homologous immunity\u201d has been published in Nature Communications.<\/p>\n<p>Strep A is a common bacterium that can cause painful tonsillitis and impetigo in young children and teenagers. If untreated, it can lead to rheumatic fever, rheumatic heart disease and kidney disease, conditions for which First Nations peoples in Australia suffer some of the highest reported rates in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exposure to Streptococcus pyogenes (Strep A) that causes mild or no symptoms can trigger the body\u2019s immune response and naturally build protection, potentially solving a nearly 100-year-old mystery of immunity. New Griffith University research, with the help of clinical scientists from the Murdoch Children\u2019s Research Institute (MCRI), investigated how immunity developed over time as infection [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243159","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\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}