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China Journal of Chinese Materia Medica
; (24): 3645-3650, 2013.
Article
in Chinese
| WPRIM
| ID: wpr-291310
ABSTRACT
As antibiotic drug resistance has become one of the most serious threats to global public health, there is a pressing need to look for new effective therapeutic drugs. Flavonoids are a large class of chemicals widely exist in plants, and have such effects as direct antibiotics, synergistic antibiotics and inhibition of bacterial activity. In this article, we made a summary for the advance in studies on the antibacterial effects of flavonoids and their mechanism.