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Table 5 Studies on the inhibitory effect of antibiotics on immunotherapy

From: The impact of the gut microbiome on tumor immunotherapy: from mechanism to application strategies

Tumor type

Immunotherapy treatment

Number of included patients

Antibiotics

References

Melanoma; NSCLC; blood cancer; renal cancer; etc.

αPD-1/PD-L1 mAb, αCTLA-4 mAb, or combination treatment

635

β-Lactam, sulfa, quinolones, macrolides aminoglycosides, tetracycline

[236]

NSCLC; kidney cancer; bladder cancer; head and neck; melanoma

αPD-1/PD-L1 mAb, αCTLA-4 mAb, or combination treatment

102

β-Lactam; fluoroquinolone; cephalosporin; macrolides; sulfonamides

[237]

NSCLC; melanoma; upper airway and digestive tract carcinoma; renal cell carcinoma

αPD-1 mAb

212

β-Lactam; fluoroquinolone; tetracycline class

[238]

NSCLC

αPD-1 mAb; αPD-L1 mAb

531

β-Lactam

[239]

NSCLC; RCC; melanoma; lung cancer; etc.

αPD-1/PD-L1 mAb, αCTLA-4 mAb, or combination treatment

5565

β-Lactam; quinolone; vancomycin; daptomycin; linezoldone; meropenem; azithromycin; furantoin; tetracycline; penicillin; etc.

[240]

NSCLC; melanoma; etc.

αPD-1 mAb; αPD-L1 mAb

196

β-Lactam; quinolone; macrolides; sulfa; tetracycline; aminoglycosides; etc.

[241]

NSCLC; melanoma; RCC; etc.

αPD-1/PD-L1 mAb, αCTLA-4 mAb, or combination treatment

12,492

β-Lactam; fluoroquinolone; penicillins; carbapenems; metronidazole; macrolides; linezolid; vancomycin; ciprofloxacin; meropenem; tetracyclines; levofloxacin

[242]

Metastatic urothelial carcinoma (mUC)

αPD-1 mAb

67

Penicillins; cephalosporins; carbapenems; quinolone

[243]

Muscle-invasive bladder cancer

αPD-1 mAb

149

Fluoroquinolones

[244]

RCC

αPD-1 mAb

93

quinolone; amoxicillin

[245]

Advanced melanoma

αCTLA-4 mAb

1585

Systemic antibiotic

[246]

NSCLC; melanoma; RCC; others

αCTLA-4 mAb; αPD-L1 mAb; αPD-1 mAb

217

Concomitant systemic antibiotics

[247]

Urothelial carcinoma

αPD-L1 mAb

1360

Penicillins; quinolone; cephalosporins; glycopeptide; carbapenems; sulfa; macrolides; aminoglycosides; etc.

[248]

Acute myeloid leukemia (AML); NSCLC; RCC

ICI; chemotherapy

338

Piperacillin; clindamycin; metronidazole. meropenem; vancomycin; furantoin; rifampin. rifaximin; tobramycin

[249]

RCC

αPD-1 mAb

69

β-Lactam; quinolone

[170]

Melanoma

αPD-1 mAb; αCTLA-4 mAb; combined

568

Cephalosporins; penicillins; fluoroquinolone

[250]

Bladder cancer; head and neck carcinoma; melanoma; NSCLC; RCC; sarcoma; others

αPD-1/PD-L1 mAb, αCTLA-4 mAb, or combination treatment

690

β-Lactam

[251]

NSCLC; melanoma; urothelial carcinoma; RCC; lung cancer; sarcoma

αPD-1/PD-L1 mAb, αCTLA-4 mAb, or combination treatment

2740

Antibiotics

[252]

NSCLC

αPD-1 mAb;

234

β-Lactam; cephalosporins; quinolone

[253]

Melanoma

αPD-1 mAb; αCTLA-4 mAb; combined with chemotherapy

74

β-Lactam

[254]

NSCLC

αPD-1 mAb; αCTLA-4 mAb

109

β-Lactam; fluoroquinolone; etc.

[255]

NSCLC; RCC

Anti-PD-L1

360

β-Lactam; quinolone; sulfa

[81]

mRCC

αPD-1/PD-L1 mAb; mTOR inhibitors; IFN-α; VEGF-TT

4290

β-Lactam; fluoroquinolone; macrolides; tetracyclines; etc.

[256]