Affiliations 

  • 1 College of Animal Science, National Engineering Research Center for Breeding Swine Industry, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China; Ministry of Agriculture, Key Laboratory of Tropical Agricultural Environment, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China
  • 2 College of Animal Science, National Engineering Research Center for Breeding Swine Industry, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China; QingYuan Polytechnic, Qingyuan 511510, China
  • 3 Nanhai Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau, Foshan 528200, China
  • 4 Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang 43400, Malaysia
  • 5 College of Animal Science, National Engineering Research Center for Breeding Swine Industry, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China; Ministry of Agriculture, Key Laboratory of Tropical Agricultural Environment, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China. Electronic address: wuyinbao@scau.edu.cn
Sci Total Environ, 2014 May 1;479-480:241-6.
PMID: 24561929 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.01.124

Abstract

The degradation behavior of veterinary antibiotics in soil is commonly studied using the following methods of adding antibiotics to the soil: (i) adding manure collected from animals fed with a diet containing antibiotics, (ii) adding antibiotic-free animal manure spiked with antibiotics and (iii) directly adding antibiotics. No research simultaneously comparing different antibiotic addition methods was found. Oxytetracycline (OTC) was used as a model antibiotic to compare the effect of the three commonly used antibiotic addition methods on OTC degradation behavior in soil. The three treatment methods have similar trends, though OTC degradation half-lives show the following significant differences (P<0.05): manure from swine fed OTC (treatment A)

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