Large-Scale Screening of 239 Traditional Chinese Medicinal Plant Extracts for Their Antibacterial Activities Against Multidrug-R
pathogens Article Large-Scale Screening of 239 Traditional Chinese Medicinal Plant Extracts for Their Antibacterial Activities against Multidrug-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Cytotoxic Activities Gowoon Kim 1, Ren-You Gan 1,2,* , Dan Zhang 1, Arakkaveettil Kabeer Farha 1, Olivier Habimana 3, Vuyo Mavumengwana 4 , Hua-Bin Li 5 , Xiao-Hong Wang 6 and Harold Corke 1,* 1 Department of Food Science & Technology, School of Agriculture and Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China; gowoon_kim@sjtu.edu.cn (G.K.); zhang.dan@sjtu.edu.cn (D.Z.); farhatintu@sjtu.edu.cn (A.K.F.) 2 Research Center for Plants and Human Health, Institute of Urban Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Chengdu 610213, China 3 School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 999077, China; ohabim@hku.hk 4 DST/NRF Centre of Excellence for Biomedical Tuberculosis Research, US/SAMRC Centre for Tuberculosis Research, Division of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town 8000, South Africa; vuyom@sun.ac.za 5 Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Food, Nutrition and Health, Department of Nutrition, School of Public Health, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510080, China; lihuabin@mail.sysu.edu.cn 6 College of Food Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China; wxh@mail.hzau.edu.cn * Correspondence: ganrenyou@caas.cn (R.-Y.G.); hcorke@sjtu.edu.cn (H.C.) Received: 3 February 2020; Accepted: 29 February 2020; Published: 4 March 2020 Abstract: Novel alternative antibacterial compounds have been persistently explored from plants as natural sources to overcome antibiotic resistance leading to serious foodborne bacterial illnesses.
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