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Cessation from Smoking Improves Innate Host Defense and Clearance of Experimentally Inoculated Nasal Staphylococcus aureus. | LitMetric

AI Article Synopsis

  • Nasal carriage of certain bacteria is usually harmless but can lead to serious infections when it spreads, especially in the U.S., highlighting a need for better understanding of how to clear these bacteria from the nose.
  • A study comparing healthy smokers and nonsmokers found that cigarette smoking increased the bacterial load in the nose, with a higher percentage of smokers carrying the bacteria compared to nonsmokers.
  • Smoking cessation improved the ability to clear the bacteria, linked to increased immune responses in nasal fluids, while unsuccessful clearance was associated with higher bacterial loads and specific immune markers.

Article Abstract

nasal carriage is transient in most humans and usually benign, but dissemination of to extranasal sites causes the majority of clinical infections, and is a major cause of serious infections in the United States. A better understanding of innate nasal decolonization mechanisms is urgently needed, as are relevant models for studying clearance. Here, we screened a population of healthy smokers for nasal carriage and compared the participants' abilities to clear experimentally applied nasal before and after completion of a smoking cessation program. We determined that cigarette smoking increases the mean nasal load (2.6 × 10 CFU/swab) compared to the load observed in healthy nonsmokers (1.7 × 10 CFU/swab) and might increase the rate of nasal carriage in otherwise-healthy adults: 22 of 99 smokers carried at the screening visit, while only 4 of 30 nonsmokers screened positive during the same time period. Only 6 of 19 experimental inoculation studies in active smokers resulted in clearance within the month of follow-up, while in the cessation group, 6 of 9 subjects cleared nasal and carriage duration averaged 21 ± 4 days. Smoking cessation associated with enhanced expression of -associated interleukin-1β (IL-1β) and granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) in nasal fluids. Participants who failed to clear exhibited a higher nasal load and elevated nasal interleukin-1 receptor antagonist (IL-1RA) expression at the preexperiment study visits. We conclude that smokers exhibit higher loads than nonsmokers and that innate immune pathways, including G-CSF expression and signaling through the IL-1 axis, are important mediators of nasal clearance.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5865040PMC
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