Tetracycline antibiotics in hospital and municipal wastewaters: a pilot study in Portugal

Abstrakt

The study investigated the occurence of tetracyclines - minocycline, tetracycline, epitetracycline and doxycycline - in four hospital wastewater effluents and its fate in municipal wastewater treatment plants in Coimbra.

Klíčová slova

• tetracyclines
• SPE
• LC-FD
• postcolumn derivatization
• environmental wastewaters