Environmental monitoring study of selected veterinary antibiotics in animal manure and soils in Austria

Excretion masses and environmental occurrence of antibiotics in typical swine and dairy cattle farms in China

“…High concentrations of antibiotics have been frequently found in animal manure, such as in pig manure (Chen et al, 2012a;Jacobsen and Halling-Sorensen, 2006;Martínez-Carballo et al, 2007;Zhao et al, 2010), cattle manure (Zhao et al, 2010) and chicken manures (Karci and Balcioglu, 2009;Martínez-Carballo et al, 2007;Zhao et al, 2010) at concentrations up to hundreds of mg/kg, and in animal wastewater at concentrations up to μg/L (Ben et al, 2008;Campagnolo et al, 2002;Chen et al, 2012b;Tagiri-Endo et al, 2009;Watanabe et al, 2010). In Chinese livestock farms, most of wastewater and manure are directly or indirectly discharged into surface water or applied onto agricultural land, resulting in the contamination of antibiotics in aquatic and terrestrial environments.…”

“…However, most reported investigations focused more on tetracyclines, sulfonamides and fluoroquinolones in animal wastes in livestock farms due to available analytical methods, less on other classes of antibiotics such as bacitracin, leucomycin, lincomycin, florfenicol, ceftiofur and ionophores (Ben et al, 2008;Campagnolo et al, 2002;Chen et al, 2012aChen et al, , 2012bJacobsen and Halling-Sorensen, 2006;Karci and Balcioglu, 2009;Martínez-Carballo et al, 2007;Tagiri-Endo et al, 2009;Watanabe et al, 2010;Zhao et al, 2010). Therefore, it is necessary to screen various classes of antibiotics in the animal wastes of livestock farms and their receiving environments to comprehensively evaluate the risks posed by the antibiotics used in livestock farms.…”

Use patterns, excretion masses and contamination profiles of antibiotics in a typical swine farm, south China

“…For instance, N-4-acetylanted sulfamethazine was excreted as the sulfamethazine metabolite from pigs, and this compound was converted back to the parent form in liquid manure. 8 Antibiotics have oen been found in animal manures at concentrations of up to tens of mg kg À1 , [9][10][11][12][13] in animal wastewater at concentrations up to tens of mg L À1 , [14][15][16] and in the environmental components affected by animal waste, including surface water, groundwater and agricultural land at several hundreds of ng L À1 . 11,[17][18][19] Antibiotic residues in the environment can affect aquatic and terrestrial organisms, [20][21][22][23] and lead to the development of antibiotic resistance by exerting selective pressure on the microbial community.…”

Changes in functional diversity of soil microbial community with addition of antibiotics sulfamethoxazole and chlortetracycline

“…Antibiotics are designed to be easily excreted by the acceptors after administration (Halling-Sørensen et al 2002;Thiele-Bruhn et al 2004), which results in high antibiotic residues in animal manure. Some reported antibiotic concentrations in manures reach the level of microgram per kilogram (Haller et al 2002;Hamscher et al 2002;Martínez-Carballo et al 2007;Zhao et al 2010). Thus, application of manures containing antibiotics is the primary route for antibiotics to enter into terrestrial environments (Diaz-Cruz et al 2003).…”