Environmental risk assessment of antibiotics including synergistic and antagonistic combination effects

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 524-525, Issue , 2015, Pages 269-279

  Marx, Conrad ^a   Mühlbauer, Viktoria ^b   Krebs, Peter ^a   Kuehn, Volker ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antagonism; Antibiotics; Hazard index; Risk assessment; Synergism

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTICS; BINARY MIXTURES; CHEMICAL HAZARDS; DRUG PRODUCTS; HAZARDS; METABOLITES; MIXTURES; RISK PERCEPTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANTS;

ANTAGONISM; ASSESSMENT APPROACHES; CONCENTRATION ADDITION; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK ASSESSMENT; HAZARD INDICES; INTERACTION INFORMATION; SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION; SYNERGISM;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

AMOXICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; CEFACLOR; CEFADROXIL; CEFIXIME; CEFUROXIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; CLINDAMYCIN; DOXYCYCLINE; LEVOFLOXACIN; PENICILLIN V; ROXITHROMYCIN; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; TRIMETHOPRIM; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; POLLUTANT;

ANTIBIOTICS; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; METABOLITE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SYNERGISM;

ARTICLE; CATCHMENT; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; GERMANY; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HAZARD INDEX; POLLUTION MONITORING; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; STREAM (RIVER); WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT; WATER CONTAMINATION; ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; DRUG POTENTIATION; POLLUTANT; POLLUTION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TOXICITY;

ELBE RIVER; GERMANY;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DRUG SYNERGISM; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; GERMANY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84927931416     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.04.051     Document Type: Article

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