Staphylococcus aureus bacteria turns immune system against it

According to a new research conducted at the University of Chicago the scientists have recently unveiled one of the important issues. To the immense success of their research they have discovered Staphylococcus aureus is a bacterium that can turn the immune system against itself. The research further found out that it has the ability to hijack a primary human immune defense mechanism and use it to destroy white blood cells. The study was published in journal Science. In actual this bacterium is found to be a leading cause of skin infections. It is most common caught in the hospitals that too includes the antibiotic resistant strain MRSA. The lead researcher of the study, Olaf Schneewind, MD, PhD, professor and chair of the Department of Microbiology at the University of Chicago explains, “These bacteria have endowed themselves with weapons to not only anticipate every immune defense, but turn these immune defenses against the host as well.”