Research Article

Different Effects of Six Antibiotics and Ten Traditional Chinese Medicines on Shiga Toxin Expression by Escherichia coli O157:H7

Table 1

MICs of antibiotics TCMs in E. coli EDL933.

AntibioticsMIC (μg/mL)

Levofloxacin (LEV)0.01
Streptomycin (STR)8.00
Chloramphenicol (CHL)1.00
Erythromycin (ERY)3.13
Tetracyclines (TET)6.25
Cefotaxime sodium (CEF)0.25

TCMsMIC (mg/mL)

Coptidis Rhizoma (CR)3.9
Fraxini Cortex (FC)3.9
Schisandrae Chinensis Fructus (SCF)7.8
Scutellariae Radix (SR)31.3
Aucklandiae Radix (AR)62.5
Rehmanniae Radix (RR)62.5
Radix et Rhizome Rhei (RRR)125.0
Achyranthis Bidentatae Radix (ABR)125.0
Corni Fructus (CF)125.0
Rhizoma seu Radix Notopterygii (RsRN)125.0