Acta Veterinaria et Zootechnica Sinica ›› 2025, Vol. 56 ›› Issue (4): 1632-1647.doi: 10.11843/j.issn.0366-6964.2025.04.014

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Research Progress on the Antibacterial Effects and Mechanisms of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Active Ingredients against Drug-resistant Bacteria

WU Junjie(), Lü Shiming, LONG Xiaoxia, WANG Zhong, WANG Liqi*()   

  1. Laboratory of Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction in the Plateau Mountainous Region, Ministry of Education, College of Animal Science, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, China
  • Received:2024-04-28 Online:2025-04-23 Published:2025-04-28
  • Contact: WANG Liqi E-mail:2087143832@qq.com;wangliqi86@126.com

Abstract:

Antimicrobial resistance can increase difficult in treatment of infectious diseases, medical burden and mortality, posing a threat to global human and animal health. In the background of reducing and banning antimicrobials, it is urgent to develop new antimicrobials, alternatives, as well as antimicrobials adjuvants. It has been demonstrated that Traditional Chinese medicine and its active components have significant advantages in controlling of antimicrobial resistance in combination with antimicrobials and has broad prospects for development and application. In this study, we reviewed the latest research progress on traditional Chinese medicine and its active components for controlling antimicrobial-resistant bacteria through acting on drug-resistant plasmids, efflux pumps, cell membrane permeability, drug-resistant enzymes, drug-resistant genes and biofilms since 2017 when China banned the use of colistin as a growth promoter (Announcement No. 2428 of the Ministry of Agriculture of China), to provide reference for the development of effective new antimicrobials or their synergist against antimicrobial-resistant bacteria.

Key words: Traditional Chinese Medicine, active ingredients of traditional Chinese medicine, antimicrobial resistance, mechanism

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