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

Infection and Immunity
Amy L ColeAlexander M Cole

Abstract

Staphylococcus aureus nasal carriage is transient in most humans and usually benign, but dissemination of S. aureus to extranasal sites causes the majority of clinical infections, and S. aureus 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 S. aureus clearance. Here, we screened a population of healthy smokers for nasal S. aureus carriage and compared the participants' abilities to clear experimentally applied nasal S. aureus before and after completion of a smoking cessation program. We determined that cigarette smoking increases the mean nasal S. aureus load (2.6 × 104 CFU/swab) compared to the load observed in healthy nonsmokers (1.7 × 103 CFU/swab) and might increase the rate of S. aureus nasal carriage in otherwise-healthy adults: 22 of 99 smokers carried S. aureus 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 S. aureus clearance within the month of follow-up, while in the cessation group, 6 of 9 subjects cleared nasal S. aureus and carriage duration averaged 21...Continue Reading

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