Risk assessment of chlortetracycline, oxytetracycline, sulfamethazine, sulfathiazole, and erythromycin in aquatic environment: Are the current environmental concentrations safe?

Ecotoxicology

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 2031-2050

  Ji, Kyunghee ^a   Kim, Sunmi ^a,d   Han, Sunyoung ^a   Seo, Jihyun ^a   Lee, Sangwoo ^a   Park, Yoonsuk ^a   Choi, Kyunghee ^a,b   Kho, Young Lim ^c   Kim, Pan Gyi ^d   Park, Jeongim ^e   Choi, Kyungho ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b National Institute of Environmental Research   (South Korea)

^c Eulji University   (South Korea)

^d Yongin University   (South Korea)

^e Soonchunhyang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Chronic toxicity; Effective concentration; Measured environmental concentration; Veterinary pharmaceutical

Indexed keywords

CHLORTETRACYCLINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; FRESH WATER; OXYTETRACYCLINE; SULFADIMIDINE; SULFATHIAZOLE;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CRUSTACEAN; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; FINFISH; GROWTH RATE; OXYTETRACYCLINE; POPULATION GROWTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOXICITY;

ALGA; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; CLADOCERA; COLLEMBOLA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DAPHNIA MAGNA; EARTHWORM; ECOTOXICITY; FISH; GROWTH RATE; HATCHING; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; INVERTEBRATE; LEMNA; LIMIT OF DETECTION; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; MOINA MACROCOPA; NONHUMAN; ORYZIAS; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TOXICITY TESTING; VIBRIO FISCHERI; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DAPHNIA; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; FRESH WATER; ORYZIAS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOXICITY TESTS, ACUTE; TOXICITY TESTS, CHRONIC; VETERINARY DRUGS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ALGAE; CLADOCERA; DAPHNIA; DAPHNIA MAGNA; INVERTEBRATA; MOINA MACROCOPA; ORYZIAS LATIPES;

EID: 84868101087     PISSN: 09639292     EISSN: 15733017     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10646-012-0956-6     Document Type: Article

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