Determination of selected antibiotics in the Victoria Harbour and the Pearl River, South China using high-performance liquid chromatography-electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 145, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 672-679

  Xu, Wei hai ^a,b,c,d   Zhang, Gan ^a   Zou, Shi chun ^b   Li, Xiang dong ^c   Liu, Yu chun ^b  

^a GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Antibiotics; China; High performance liquid chromatography (HPLC); Hong Kong; Pearl River; Tandem mass spectrometry; Water

Indexed keywords

HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; IONIZATION; MASS SPECTROMETERS; RIVERS; WATER POLLUTION CONTROL;

DIURNAL VARIATIONS; LIMIT OF QUANTIFICATION (LOQ); PEARL RIVER; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

ANTIBIOTICS;

AMOXICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CAFFEINE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; ERYTHROMYCIN; NORFLOXACIN; OFLOXACIN; ROXITHROMYCIN; SULFADIAZINE; SULFADIMIDINE; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE;

ANTIBIOTICS; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MARINE POLLUTION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; POLLUTION MONITORING; RIVER POLLUTION; TIDAL CYCLE; WASTEWATER;

ARTICLE; CHINA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HONG KONG; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RIVER; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPRING; SUMMER; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; WATER CONTAMINATION;

AMOXICILLIN; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHINA; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CLIMATE; ERYTHROMYCIN; HONG KONG; MACROLIDES; NORFLOXACIN; OFLOXACIN; QUINOLONES; RIVERS; SEASONS; SEAWATER; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION; SULFANILAMIDES; TIME FACTORS; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; GUANGDONG; HONG KONG; HONG KONG ISLAND; VICTORIA HARBOUR; ZHUJIANG;

EID: 33846435397     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2006.05.038     Document Type: Article

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