TY - JOUR
T1 - Intracellular Penetration and Effects of Antibiotics on Staphylococcus aureus Inside Human Neutrophils
T2 - A Comprehensive Review
AU - Bongers, Suzanne
AU - Hellebrekers, Pien
AU - Leenen, Luke P H
AU - Koenderman, Leo
AU - Hietbrink, Falco
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 by the authors.
PY - 2019/5/4
Y1 - 2019/5/4
N2 - Neutrophils are important assets in defense against invading bacteria like staphylococci. However, (dysfunctioning) neutrophils can also serve as reservoir for pathogens that are able to survive inside the cellular environment. Staphylococcus aureus is a notorious facultative intracellular pathogen. Most vulnerable for neutrophil dysfunction and intracellular infection are immune-deficient patients or, as has recently been described, severely injured patients. These dysfunctional neutrophils can become hide-out spots or "Trojan horses" for S. aureus. This location offers protection to bacteria from most antibiotics and allows transportation of bacteria throughout the body inside moving neutrophils. When neutrophils die, these bacteria are released at different locations. In this review, we therefore focus on the capacity of several groups of antibiotics to enter human neutrophils, kill intracellular S. aureus and affect neutrophil function. We provide an overview of intracellular capacity of available antibiotics to aid in clinical decision making. In conclusion, quinolones, rifamycins and sulfamethoxazole-trimethoprim seem very effective against intracellular S. aureus in human neutrophils. Oxazolidinones, macrolides and lincosamides also exert intracellular antibiotic activity. Despite that the reviewed data are predominantly of in vitro origin, these findings should be taken into account when intracellular infection is suspected, as can be the case in severely injured patients.
AB - Neutrophils are important assets in defense against invading bacteria like staphylococci. However, (dysfunctioning) neutrophils can also serve as reservoir for pathogens that are able to survive inside the cellular environment. Staphylococcus aureus is a notorious facultative intracellular pathogen. Most vulnerable for neutrophil dysfunction and intracellular infection are immune-deficient patients or, as has recently been described, severely injured patients. These dysfunctional neutrophils can become hide-out spots or "Trojan horses" for S. aureus. This location offers protection to bacteria from most antibiotics and allows transportation of bacteria throughout the body inside moving neutrophils. When neutrophils die, these bacteria are released at different locations. In this review, we therefore focus on the capacity of several groups of antibiotics to enter human neutrophils, kill intracellular S. aureus and affect neutrophil function. We provide an overview of intracellular capacity of available antibiotics to aid in clinical decision making. In conclusion, quinolones, rifamycins and sulfamethoxazole-trimethoprim seem very effective against intracellular S. aureus in human neutrophils. Oxazolidinones, macrolides and lincosamides also exert intracellular antibiotic activity. Despite that the reviewed data are predominantly of in vitro origin, these findings should be taken into account when intracellular infection is suspected, as can be the case in severely injured patients.
KW - Staphylococcus aureus
KW - intracellular antibiotics
KW - intracellular pathogen
KW - neutrophils
KW - polymorphonuclear leucocyte (PMN)
KW - Polymorphonuclear leucocyte (PMN)
KW - Neutrophils
KW - Intracellular antibiotics
KW - Intracellular pathogen
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U2 - 10.3390/antibiotics8020054
DO - 10.3390/antibiotics8020054
M3 - Review article
C2 - 31060222
SN - 2079-6382
VL - 8
JO - Antibiotics [E]
JF - Antibiotics [E]
IS - 2
M1 - 54
ER -