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The development of a rapid screening technique to measure antibiotic activity in effluents and surface water samples |
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| Authors: | Smith A J Balaam J L Ward A |
| Institution: | aCentre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Burnham Laboratory, Remembrance Avenue, Burnham on Crouch, Essex CM0 8HA, United Kingdom |
| Abstract: | Use of antibiotics in medicine, farming and aquaculture results in a continual supply of these pharmaceuticals and their breakdown products reaching the environment. A method has been developed to use for screening environmental samples to establish whether they contain antibiotics. The assay is based on a commercially available test kit and uses some modifications of the test procedure and SPE techniques to deliver a fast, semi-quantifiable result. Development of the assay and results from spiked and environmental samples are discussed. |
| Keywords: | Antibiotics Environmental Open waters Effluent ABC assay Antibiotic equivalents Bacillus stearothermophilus Surface waters |
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