Publication detail

Fate of fluoroquinolones in field soil environment after incorporation of poultry litter from a farm with enrofloxacin administration via drinking water

FUČÍK, J. AMRICHOVÁ, A. BRABCOVÁ, K. KARPÍŠKOVÁ, R. KOLÁČKOVÁ, I. POKLUDOVÁ, L. POLÁKOVÁ, Š. MRAVCOVÁ, L.

Original Title

Fate of fluoroquinolones in field soil environment after incorporation of poultry litter from a farm with enrofloxacin administration via drinking water

Type

journal article in Web of Science

Language

English

Original Abstract

The practice of incorporating animal manure into soil is supported within the European Circular economy as a possible substitute for mineral fertilizers and will become crucial for the sustainability of agriculture. However, this practice may indirectly contribute to the dissemination of antibiotics, resistance bacteria, and resistance genes. In this study, medicated drinking water and poultry litter samples were obtained from a broiler-chick farm. The obtained poultry litter was incorporated into the soil at the experimental field site. The objectives of this research project were first to develop analytical methods able to quantify fluoroquinolones (FQs) in medicated drinking water, poultry litter, and soil samples by LC–MS; second to study the fate of these FQs in the soil environment after incorporation of poultry litter from flock medicated by enrofloxacin (ENR); and third to screen the occurrence of selected fluoroquinolone resistance encoding genes in poultry litter and soil samples (PCR analysis). FQs were quantified in the broiler farm’s medicated drinking water (41.0 ± 0.3 mg∙L−1 of ENR) and poultry litter (up to 70 mg∙kg−1 of FQs). The persistence of FQs in the soil environment over 112 days was monitored and evaluated (ENR concentrations ranged from 36 μg∙kg−1 to 9 μg∙kg−1 after 100 days). The presence of resistance genes was confirmed in both poultry litter and soil samples, in agreement with the risk assessment for the selection of AMR in soil based on ENR concentrations. This work provides a new, comprehensive perspective on the entry and long-term fate of antimicrobials in the terrestrial environment and their consequences after the incorporation of poultry litter into agricultural fields.

Keywords

Veterinary antimicrobials, Fluoroquinolones, Manure fertilization, Antimicrobial resistance, Solid phase extraction, Liquid chromatography, Mass spectrometry, PCR

Authors

FUČÍK, J.; AMRICHOVÁ, A.; BRABCOVÁ, K.; KARPÍŠKOVÁ, R.; KOLÁČKOVÁ, I.; POKLUDOVÁ, L.; POLÁKOVÁ, Š.; MRAVCOVÁ, L.

Released

17. 2. 2024

Publisher

Springer Nature

Location

Germany

ISBN

0944-1344

Periodical

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH

Year of study

31

Number

13

State

Federal Republic of Germany

Pages from

20017

Pages to

20032

Pages count

16

URL

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11356-024-32492-x

BibTex

@article{BUT188018,
  author="Jan {Fučík} and Anna {Amrichová} and Kristýna {Brabcová} and Renata {Karpíšková} and Ivana {Koláčková} and Lucie {Pokludová} and Šárka {Poláková} and Ludmila {Mravcová}",
  title="Fate of fluoroquinolones in field soil environment after incorporation of poultry litter from a farm with enrofloxacin administration via drinking water",
  journal="ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH",
  year="2024",
  volume="31",
  number="13",
  pages="16",
  doi="10.1007/s11356-024-32492-x",
  issn="0944-1344",
  url="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11356-024-32492-x"
}