George D. LiatsosIlias MariolisEmilia HadziyannisAristotelis BamiasDimitrios Vassilopoulos12nd Department of Medicine and Laboratory, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine, General Hospital of Athens "Hippokration", Athens, Greece22nd Propaedeutic Department of Internal Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine, Attikon University General Hospital, Athens, GreeceGraeme N. ForrestChao Qi
{"title":"Review of BCG immunotherapy for bladder cancer","authors":"George D. LiatsosIlias MariolisEmilia HadziyannisAristotelis BamiasDimitrios Vassilopoulos12nd Department of Medicine and Laboratory, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine, General Hospital of Athens \"Hippokration\", Athens, Greece22nd Propaedeutic Department of Internal Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine, Attikon University General Hospital, Athens, GreeceGraeme N. ForrestChao Qi","doi":"10.1128/cmr.00194-23","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1128/cmr.00194-23","url":null,"abstract":"Clinical Microbiology Reviews, Ahead of Print. <br/>","PeriodicalId":10378,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Microbiology Reviews","volume":"132 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":36.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143385069","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Feroze A. GanaieBernard W. BeallJigui YuMark van der LindenLesley McGeeCatherine SatzkeSam MannaStephanie W. LoStephen D. BentleyNeil RavenscroftMoon H. Nahm1Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary/Allergy/Critical Care, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA2Eagle Global Scientific, LLC, Contractor to Respiratory Diseases Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA3Reference Laboratory for Streptococci, Department of Medical Microbiology, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany4Division of Bacterial Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA5Infection, Immunity and Global Health, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia6Department of Pediatrics, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia7Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, The Universit..
{"title":"Update on the evolving landscape of pneumococcal capsule types: new discoveries and way forward","authors":"Feroze A. GanaieBernard W. BeallJigui YuMark van der LindenLesley McGeeCatherine SatzkeSam MannaStephanie W. LoStephen D. BentleyNeil RavenscroftMoon H. Nahm1Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary/Allergy/Critical Care, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA2Eagle Global Scientific, LLC, Contractor to Respiratory Diseases Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA3Reference Laboratory for Streptococci, Department of Medical Microbiology, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany4Division of Bacterial Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA5Infection, Immunity and Global Health, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia6Department of Pediatrics, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia7Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, The Universit..","doi":"10.1128/cmr.00175-24","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1128/cmr.00175-24","url":null,"abstract":"Clinical Microbiology Reviews, Ahead of Print. <br/>","PeriodicalId":10378,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Microbiology Reviews","volume":"74 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":36.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143056744","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Benjamin CaddeySibina FisherHerman W. BarkemaDiego B. Nobrega1Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Calgary2129, Calgary, Alberta, CanadaAudrey N. SchuetzRobert BowdenDarren Trott
{"title":"Companions in antimicrobial resistance: examining transmission of common antimicrobial-resistant organisms between people and their dogs, cats, and horses","authors":"Benjamin CaddeySibina FisherHerman W. BarkemaDiego B. Nobrega1Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Calgary2129, Calgary, Alberta, CanadaAudrey N. SchuetzRobert BowdenDarren Trott","doi":"10.1128/cmr.00146-22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1128/cmr.00146-22","url":null,"abstract":"Clinical Microbiology Reviews, Ahead of Print. <br/>","PeriodicalId":10378,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Microbiology Reviews","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":36.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143030937","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Michael P. Barrett1School of Infection and Immunity, College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United KingdomLouisa A. Messenger
{"title":"Transforming the chemotherapy of human African trypanosomiasis","authors":"Michael P. Barrett1School of Infection and Immunity, College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United KingdomLouisa A. Messenger","doi":"10.1128/cmr.00153-23","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1128/cmr.00153-23","url":null,"abstract":"Clinical Microbiology Reviews, Ahead of Print. <br/>","PeriodicalId":10378,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Microbiology Reviews","volume":"39 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":36.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142935886","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Marcelo B Labruna, Álvaro A Faccini-Martínez, Sebastián Muñoz-Leal, Matias P J Szabó, Rodrigo N Angerami
{"title":"Lyme borreliosis in Brazil: a critical review on the Baggio-Yoshinari syndrome (Brazilian Lyme-like disease).","authors":"Marcelo B Labruna, Álvaro A Faccini-Martínez, Sebastián Muñoz-Leal, Matias P J Szabó, Rodrigo N Angerami","doi":"10.1128/cmr.00097-24","DOIUrl":"10.1128/cmr.00097-24","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>SUMMARYLyme borreliosis or Lyme disease is the most frequently reported tick-borne disease in the Northern Hemisphere. In countries of the Southern Hemisphere, such as Brazil, since the early 1990s, some researchers have argued for the existence of an autochthonous Lyme-like borreliosis, known locally as the Baggio-Yoshinari syndrome (BYS), an alleged \"Brazilian borreliosis\" supposedly caused by a different strain of <i>Borrelia burgdorferi</i> and transmitted by hard ticks. Currently, the existence of BYS in Brazil is still accepted by a large part of the human health care workers, scientists, medical societies, and patients. In fact, this alleged \"Brazilian borreliosis\" has been the tick-borne zoonotic disease with the greatest number of reported cases and published studies in Brazil during this century, second only to Brazilian spotted fever. In this manuscript, we reviewed all manuscripts directly related to BYS that have been published in Brazil during the last 35 years. This analysis included 199 individual human cases that have been reported in Brazil since 1989, plus multiple studies on ticks, domestic, and wild animals. Our revision aimed to provide a critical opinion on whether the current published works allow healthcare workers, public health agencies, and patients to accept the existence of Lyme disease, BYS, or other Lyme borreliosis-related disease in Brazil. For this purpose, we evaluated the strengths and weaknesses of each published study, considering the diagnostic methods used, such as serological, microbiological, and molecular analyses. Based on these evaluations, we conclude that there is not enough evidence to support the occurrence of Lyme borreliosis in Brazil or that BYS (Brazilian Lyme-like disease) is caused by a bacterium of the genus <i>Borrelia</i>. This assumption is based on the inaccuracy, unreliability, and misinterpretation of the different diagnostic methods that have been used in Brazil. Recognizing the lack of technical evidence for the occurrence of Lyme borreliosis in Brazil has highly relevant implications. For example, it becomes imperative to raise awareness among the country's medical profession, as they have adopted unnecessary and extreme therapies recommended for patients with a supposed borrelial infection, including BYS, in Brazil. Finally, the technical analyses carried out in this study could be applied to other countries in the Southern Hemisphere (<i>e.g.</i>, Argentina, South Africa, Australia), where cases classified and alleged as Lyme disease have been reported.</p>","PeriodicalId":10378,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Microbiology Reviews","volume":" ","pages":"e0009724"},"PeriodicalIF":19.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11629638/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142567107","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ashley T Deventer, Claire E Stevens, Amy Stewart, Joanne K Hobbs
{"title":"Antibiotic tolerance among clinical isolates: mechanisms, detection, prevalence, and significance.","authors":"Ashley T Deventer, Claire E Stevens, Amy Stewart, Joanne K Hobbs","doi":"10.1128/cmr.00106-24","DOIUrl":"10.1128/cmr.00106-24","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>SUMMARYAntibiotic treatment failures in the absence of resistance are not uncommon. Recently, attention has grown around the phenomenon of antibiotic tolerance, an underappreciated contributor to recalcitrant infections first detected in the 1970s. Tolerance describes the ability of a bacterial population to survive transient exposure to an otherwise lethal concentration of antibiotic without exhibiting resistance. With advances in genomics, we are gaining a better understanding of the molecular mechanisms behind tolerance, and several studies have sought to examine the clinical prevalence of tolerance. Attempts have also been made to assess the clinical significance of tolerance through <i>in vivo</i> infection models and prospective/retrospective clinical studies. Here, we review the data available on the molecular mechanisms, detection, prevalence, and clinical significance of genotypic tolerance that span ~50 years. We discuss the need for standardized methodology and interpretation criteria for tolerance detection and the impact that methodological inconsistencies have on our ability to accurately assess the scale of the problem. In terms of the clinical significance of tolerance, studies suggest that tolerance contributes to worse outcomes for patients (e.g., higher mortality, prolonged hospitalization), but historical data from animal models are varied. Furthermore, we lack the necessary information to effectively treat tolerant infections. Overall, while the tolerance field is gaining much-needed traction, the underlying clinical significance of tolerance that underpins all tolerance research is still far from clear and requires attention.</p>","PeriodicalId":10378,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Microbiology Reviews","volume":" ","pages":"e0010624"},"PeriodicalIF":19.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11629620/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142371049","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tristan W Clark, John S Tregoning, Helen Lister, Tiziano Poletti, Femy Amin, Jonathan S Nguyen-Van-Tam
{"title":"Recent advances in the influenza virus vaccine landscape: a comprehensive overview of technologies and trials.","authors":"Tristan W Clark, John S Tregoning, Helen Lister, Tiziano Poletti, Femy Amin, Jonathan S Nguyen-Van-Tam","doi":"10.1128/cmr.00025-24","DOIUrl":"10.1128/cmr.00025-24","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>SUMMARYIn the United Kingdom (UK) in 2022/23, influenza virus infections returned to the levels recorded before the COVID-19 pandemic, exerting a substantial burden on an already stretched National Health Service (NHS) through increased primary and emergency care visits and subsequent hospitalizations. Population groups ≤4 years and ≥65 years of age, and those with underlying health conditions, are at the greatest risk of influenza-related hospitalization. Recent advances in influenza virus vaccine technologies may help to mitigate this burden. This review aims to summarize advances in the influenza virus vaccine landscape by describing the different technologies that are currently in use in the UK and more widely. The review also describes vaccine technologies that are under development, including mRNA, and universal influenza virus vaccines which aim to provide broader or increased protection. This is an exciting and important era for influenza virus vaccinations, and advances are critical to protect against a disease that still exerts a substantial burden across all populations and disproportionately impacts the most vulnerable, despite it being over 80 years since the first influenza virus vaccines were deployed.</p>","PeriodicalId":10378,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Microbiology Reviews","volume":" ","pages":"e0002524"},"PeriodicalIF":19.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11629632/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142364664","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jaclyn A Cusumano, Andreas P Kalogeropoulos, Mathieu Le Provost, Nicolas R Gallo, Steven M Levine, Thomas Inzana, Aikaterini Papamanoli
{"title":"The emerging challenge of <i>Enterococcus faecalis</i> endocarditis after transcatheter aortic valve implantation: time for innovative treatment approaches.","authors":"Jaclyn A Cusumano, Andreas P Kalogeropoulos, Mathieu Le Provost, Nicolas R Gallo, Steven M Levine, Thomas Inzana, Aikaterini Papamanoli","doi":"10.1128/cmr.00168-23","DOIUrl":"10.1128/cmr.00168-23","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>SUMMARYInfective endocarditis (IE) is a life-threatening infection that has nearly doubled in prevalence over the last two decades due to the increase in implantable cardiac devices. Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) is currently one of the most common cardiac procedures. TAVI usage continues to exponentially rise, inevitability increasing TAVI-IE. Patients with TAVI are frequently nonsurgical candidates, and TAVI-IE 1-year mortality rates can be as high as 74% without valve or bacterial biofilm removal. <i>Enterococcus faecalis,</i> a historically less common IE pathogen, is the primary cause of TAVI-IE. Treatment options are limited due to enterococcal intrinsic resistance and biofilm formation. Novel approaches are warranted to tackle current therapeutic gaps. We describe the existing challenges in treating TAVI-IE and how available treatment discovery approaches can be combined with an <i>in silico</i> \"Living Heart\" model to create solutions for the future.</p>","PeriodicalId":10378,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Microbiology Reviews","volume":" ","pages":"e0016823"},"PeriodicalIF":19.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11629618/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142132040","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Toward better cures for <i>Mycobacterium abscessus</i> lung disease.","authors":"Véronique Dartois, Thomas Dick","doi":"10.1128/cmr.00080-23","DOIUrl":"10.1128/cmr.00080-23","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>SUMMARYThe opportunistic pathogen <i>Mycobacterium abscessus</i> (Mab) causes fatal lung infections that bear similarities-and notable differences-with tuberculosis (TB) pulmonary disease. In contrast to TB, no antibiotic is formally approved to treat Mab disease, there is no reliable cure, and the discovery and development pipeline is incredibly thin. Here, we discuss the factors behind the unsatisfactory cure rates of Mab disease, namely intrinsic resistance and persistence of the pathogen, and the use of underperforming, often parenteral and toxic, repurposed drugs. We propose preclinical strategies to build injectable-free sterilizing and safe regimens: (i) prioritize oral bactericidal antibiotic classes, with an initial focus on approved agents or advanced clinical candidates to provide immediate options for desperate patients, (ii) test drug combinations early, (iii) optimize novel leads specifically for <i>M. abscessus</i>, and (iv) consider pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic targets at the site of disease, the lung lesions in which drug tolerant bacterial populations reside. Knowledge and tool gaps in the preclinical drug discovery process are identified, including validated mouse models and computational platforms to enable <i>in vitro</i> mouse-human translation. We briefly discuss recent advances in clinical development, the need for readouts and biomarkers that correlate with cure, and clinical trial concepts adapted to the uniqueness of Mab patient populations for new regimen development. In an era when most pharmaceutical firms have withdrawn from antimicrobial drug discovery, the breakthroughs needed to fill the regimen development pipeline will likely come from partnerships between academia, biotech, pharma, non-profit organizations, and governments, with incentives that reward cooperation.</p>","PeriodicalId":10378,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Microbiology Reviews","volume":" ","pages":"e0008023"},"PeriodicalIF":19.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11629636/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142364665","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}