Acta Veterinaria et Zootechnica Sinica ›› 2025, Vol. 56 ›› Issue (11): 5389-5401.doi: 10.11843/j.issn.0366-6964.2025.11.005

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Current Situation and Mechanism of Antibiotic Resistance of Brucella

GE Shengxin1(), LI Shuwen1,2, NING Wenqing1,3, DING Jiabo1,*(), YANG Xiaowen1,*()   

  1. 1. Key Laboratory of Animal Biosafe Risk Prevention and Control (North) of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Institute of Animal Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100193, China
    2. College of Veterinary Medicine, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China
    3. College of Veterinary Medicine, Shandong Agricultural University, Taian 271001, China
  • Received:2025-02-13 Online:2025-11-23 Published:2025-11-27
  • Contact: DING Jiabo, YANG Xiaowen E-mail:2604561725@qq.com;dingjiabo@126.com;yangxiaowen01@caas.cn

Abstract:

Brucella spp. is the pathogen that causes zoonotic brucellosis. Brucellosis is one of the important diseases that threaten public health safety in China. The direct and indirect economic losses caused by brucellosis in our country reach billions of dollars every year. According to the statistics of World Organization for Animal Health and World Animal Health Information System, the epidemic situation of brucellosis in most regions is still severe except Western Europe, parts of North America and Australia. The clinical treatment of brucellosis has always been based on antibiotic therapy. In recent years, researches have shown that Brucella spp. has an obvious trend of resistance to commonly used antibiotics, which has brought challenges to clinical treatment. This article mainly summarizes the researches on antibiotic resistance of Brucella spp. from 2004 to 2024, analyzes the current situation and mechanism of antibiotic resistance of Brucella spp., provides reference for the prevention and control of brucellosis, and reduces the direct and indirect losses caused by chronic brucellosis due to antibiotic resistance.

Key words: Brucella, present situation of antibiotic resistance, mechanisms of antibiotic resistance

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