Fate of a representative pharmaceutical in the environment
Abstract
The purpose of this research was to determine the fate of amoxicillin in the City
of Lubbock’s Water Reclamation Plant and to determine the antibiotic resistance patterns
in the plant. Amoxicillin was detected in the influent of the plant during one month of
the study, but amoxicillin was not detected at any other plant flow streams. The
antibiotic resistance patterns of the LWRP varied monthly; heterotrophic bacteria were
resistant to most of the antibiotics investigated during the nine month study.
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Citation
Morse, Audra; Jackson, Andrew (2003). Fate of a representative pharmaceutical in the environment. Texas Water Resources Institute. Available electronically from https : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /6118.