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ArticleEuropean journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology2026

Comparative efficacy of oral antibiotics against intracellular populations of uropathogenic Escherichia coli and bladder cell inflammatory response.

Michelle Kalu, Peter Jorth, Annie Wong-Beringer

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Article in European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Michelle KaluDepartment of Clinical Pharmacy, University of Southern California Alfred E. Mann School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Peter JorthDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Annie Wong-BeringerDepartment of Clinical Pharmacy, University of Southern California Alfred E. Mann School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, USA. anniew@usc.edu.

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Abstract

Predisposing risks to recurrent urinary tract infections caused by uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC) include the formation of intracellular bacterial communities (IBCs) as a reservoir for persistence within bladder epithelial cells and sustained elevation of proinflammatory mediators that interfere with wound healing. Here we investigated the efficacy of oral agents (nitrofurantoin, doxycycline, and gepotidacin) in intracellular bacterial clearance and proinflammatory signaling in bladder epithelial cell infection in-vitro. Our findings suggested variable and strain-dependent host inflammatory responses to UPEC infection and that mechanistically distinct oral antibiotics differentially affected the expression of proinflammatory mediators (TNFα and PTGS2) and efficacy in clearing intracellular bacteria.

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Antibiotic exposureBladder epithelial cell immune responseIntracellular bacterial communitiesUPEC

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