Review Article
Recent Advances and Perspectives on the Sources and Detection of Antibiotics in Aquatic Environments
Table 1
Antibiotic concentrations in waters.
| Country/region | Category | Concentration (ng/mL) | Reference |
| Musi River, South India | Ciprofloxacin | 6.59–5.53 × 103 | [28] | Ofloxacin | 1.55–318.1 | Enrofloxacin | 2.57–123.4 | Norfloxacin | 16.14–217.5 | Pefloxacin | 0.74–44.34 | Difloxacin | 0.47–37.74 | Lomefloxacin | 3.59–10.32 |
| Han River, South Korea | Oxytetracycline | 1.236 | [29] | Tetracycline | 2.093 | Chlorotetracycline | 0.793 |
| Wangyu River, China | Tetracyclines | 1.082–15.310 | [26] | Quinolones | 0.225–1.325 | Sulfonamides | NA–0.888 | Macrolides | 0.012–0.017 |
| Msunduzi River, South Africa | Nalidixic acid | 23.504 | [30] | Vietnam | Sulfamethazine | 19 | [31] | Mozambique | Sulfamethoxazole | 53.8 | [32] | Kenya | Sulfamethoxazole | 38.9 | [33] | Croatia | Sulfamerazine | 11 | [34] |
| Lake Poyang, China | Sulfadiazine | 5.62 × 10−2 | [35] | Oxytetracycline | 4.87 × 10−2 | Doxycycline | 3.97 × 10−2 |
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