Sorption and degradation of veterinary drugs in soil

• Grant number: 12/01767-0
• Support type: Regular Research Grants
• Duration: May 01, 2012 - April 30, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Agronomical Sciences - Agronomy - Soil Science
• Principal researcher: Susanne Rath
• Grantee: Susanne Rath
• Home Institution: Instituto de Química (IQ). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Veterinary drugs, in particular antimicrobials, have been widely employed in livestock to ensure animal health, as well as allowing an increase in food production of animal origin. Despite of their benefits, the use of veterinary drugs can result in serious risk to water, soil, plants , terrestrial and aquatic organism and also to humans, since a large quantity of these substances enters in the environment in their non metabolized form, through feces and urine of the treated animals. Once present in the field, veterinary drugs with high sorption capacity tend to accumulate in soils and sediments. In contrary, compounds with low sorption capacity will be leached and may contaminate surface water, groundwater, and also potable water. There is a great concern for the development of resistant bacteria, which may be caused, among others, by the dispersion of antimicrobials in the environment. There is a lack in studies on the behavior of veterinary drugs in soils, as well as, analytical methods for the determination of residues of veterinary drugs in this matrix. Mostly, researches have been conducted in European Countries with climatic conditions and soils types very different from those found in Brazil. In view of this fact, this project aims to develop methods for the determination of residues of veterinary drugs, metabolites or degradation products in Brazilian soils, as well as the evaluation of sorption and desorption of antimicrobials of the classes of tetracyclines, sulfonamides and fluoroquinolonas in characteristic soils of the Sate of São Paulo. Moreover, anaerobic and aerobic degradation of antimicrobials in soils will be evaluated. (AU)

Scientific publications

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(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

RATH, SUSANNE; FOSTIER, ANNE HELENE; PEREIRA, LEANDRO ALVES; DIONISO, ANDREZA CAMILOTTI; FERREIRA, FABRICIO DE OLIVEIRA; DORETTO, KEITY MARGARETH; PERUCHI, LIVIA MANIERO; VIERA, ALESSANDRA; DE OLIVEIRA NETO, ODILON FRANCA; DAL BOSCO, SANDRA MARIA; MARTINEZ-MEJIA, MONICA J. Sorption behaviors of antimicrobial and antiparasitic veterinary drugs on subtropical soils. Chemosphere, v. 214, p. 111-122, JAN 2019. Web of Science Citations: 7.

MARTINEZ-MEJIA, MONICA J.; SATO, ISABELA; RATH, SUSANNE. Sorption mechanism of enrofloxacin on humic acids extracted from Brazilian soils. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, v. 24, n. 19, SI, p. 15995-16006, JUL 2017. Web of Science Citations: 4.

MARTINEZ-MEJIA, MONICA J.; RATH, SUSANNE. Use of experimental design to optimize a triple-potential waveform to develop a method for the determination of streptomycin and dihydrostreptomycin in pharmaceutical veterinary dosage forms by HPLC-PAD. Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis, v. 104, p. 81-89, FEB 10 2015. Web of Science Citations: 8.

PERUCHI, LIVIA MANIERO; FOSTIER, ANNE HELENE; RATH, SUSANNE. Sorption of norfloxacin in soils: Analytical method, kinetics and Freundlich isotherms. Chemosphere, v. 119, p. 310-317, JAN 2015. Web of Science Citations: 43.

DORETTO, KEITY MARGARETH; PERUCHI, LIVIA MANIERO; RATH, SUSANNE. Sorption and desorption of sulfadimethoxine, sulfaquinoxaline and sulfamethazine antimicrobials in Brazilian soils. Science of The Total Environment, v. 476, p. 406-414, APR 1 2014. Web of Science Citations: 57.