Staphylococcus aureus
is an opportunistic human pathogen that colonizes the mucosal surfaces. It is the causative agent of various serious acute and chronic infections. Recent prevalence of infectious diseases caused and expanded by hospital-acquired methicillin-resistant
S. aureus
(HA-MRSA), community-acquired methicillin-resistant
(CA-MRSA) and livesk-acquired methicillin-resistant
(LA-MRSA). MRSA infections must be more serious problem in near future.
It is presumed that offense and defense responses are continuously executed between
and host to establish and maintain commensalism for
. Therefore, it is essential to elucidate interplay between
and hosts to prevent staphylococcal infectious diseases. This book is comprised of content that focuses on this aspect.