Kasprzyk-Hordern, B.; Castrignano, E.; Feil, E.; Lewis, S.

Concentrations of antibiotics in wastewater and receiving waters following water treatment in SW England, June-October, 2015

https://doi.org/10.5285/f4c79bd3-3ce9-4f4e-ae19-bb4fd2dce7a5 Cite this dataset

This dataset comprises of weekly concentrations of fluoroquinolones in wastewater and receiving waters collected in the Avon river catchment South West UK. The following fluoroquinolones were analysed: (±)-ofloxacin, (±)-ofloxacin-N-oxide, (±)-desmethyl-ofloxacin, (±)-lomefloxacin, (±)-moxifloxacin, S,S-moxifloxacin-N-sulfate, R-(+)-besifloxacin, (±)-prulifloxacin, (±)-ulifloxacin, (±)-flumequine and (±)-nadifloxacin; ciprofloxacin, desethylene-ciprofloxacin, norfloxacin and nalidixic acid.

The concentrations of (fluoro)quinolones were measured in receiving treated wastewater from 5 wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs), which serves 1.5 million people accounting for 75% of inhabitants living in the catchment area in the South West of England.

NERC Grant NE/N019261/1

Publication date: 2021-03-05

Where/When

Study area
Temporal extent: 2015-06-01 to 2015-10-31

Provenance & quality

Wastewater influent and effluent were collected for 7 consecutive days running from Wednesday to Tuesday between June and October 2015 from five major WWTPs contributing to one river catchment in the South-West UK.

Measurements of antibiotic were conducted using chiral liquid chromatography coupled with tandem mass spectrometry. See supporting documentation for further details.

Supplemental information

Castrignanò, E., Kannan, A.M., Proctor, K., Petrie, B., Hodgen, S., Feil, E.J., Lewis, S.E., Lopardo, L., Camacho-Muñoz, D., Rice, J., Cartwright, N., Barden, R., & Kasprzyk-Hordern, B. (2020). (Fluoro)quinolones and quinolone resistance genes in the aquatic environment: A river catchment perspective. Water Research, 182, 116015.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2020.116015