The application belongs to the technical field of non-antibiotic compounds as bacteriostatic agents, and discloses an application of a known non-antibiotic compound, cladrabine, in inhibiting the growth of multi-
drug resistant
Klebsiella pneumoniae. The application finds that cladrabine can inhibit the growth of multi-
drug resistant
Klebsiella pneumoniae, and the minimum bacteriostatic concentration reaches 64 mg / L. Further exploration of the bacteriostatic mechanism finds that after
exposure to cladrabine, the permeability of the bacterial
cell membrane is enhanced, and the
macromolecular substances (nucleic acids and proteins) in the
cell are excreted, causing the integrity of the bacterial
cell membrane to be destroyed, and further causing the death of
Klebsiella pneumoniae. The application proposes that cladrabine can destroy the
cell membrane of
bacteria, change the permeability of the
cell membrane, has a good
inhibitory effect on multi-
drug resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae, and can be further applied to the preparation of related drugs.