Proceedings of the Korean Environmental Health Society Conference (한국환경보건학회:학술대회논문집)
- 2004.06a
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- Pages.173-177
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- 2004
Aquatic Toxicities of Major Antimicrobial and Anthelmintic Veterinary Pharmaceuticals and their Potential Ecological Risks
- Oh, Su-Gene (School of Public Health, Seoul National University) ;
- Kim, Jung-Kon (School of Public Health, Seoul National University) ;
- Park, So-Young (School of Public Health, Seoul National University) ;
- Lee, Min-Jung (School of Public Health, Seoul National University) ;
- Choi, Kyung-Ho (School of Public Health, Seoul National University)
- Published : 2004.06.04
Abstract
The acute toxicities of two major anti-pathogenic veterinary medicines, i.e., ciprofloxacin and enrofloxacin, and six benzimidazole anthelmintics, i.e., albendazole, thiabendazole, flubendazole, febantel, fenbendazole, and oxfendazole, were evaluated with a marine bacterium, Vibrio fischeri, and invertebrate Daphnia magna. These veterinary medical products have been widely used for farm animals, but their impact on aquatic fauna has seldom been investigated. In general, daphnids responded as much as 3 orders of magnitude more sensitively to the tested pharmaceuticals than the microbes. For Daphnia, the most toxic product among the tested anthelmintics was fenbendazole, followed by flubendazole > albendazole
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