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The effect of aging on sequestration and bioaccessibility of oxytetracycline in soils

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Veterinary antibiotics introduced into soil environment may change the composition and functioning of soil microbial communities and promote the spreading of antibiotic resistance. Actual risks depend on the antibiotic’s bioaccessibility and sequestration in soils, which may vary with contact time and soil properties. We elucidated changes in the horsebean plant’s bioaccessible oxytetracycline with increasing contact time in three different soils (cinnamon, red, and brown soil) and observed discrepancy in oxytetracycline dissipation using sequential extractions with H2O-, 0.01 M CaCl2-, and Mcllvaine- in the same three soils. The results showed lower quantities of oxytetracycline with increasing contact time over 20 days than the level in freshly contaminated soils but hugely discrepant quantities among the three tested soils. In addition, aging largely reduced dissipation of H2O-, 0.01 M CaCl2-, and Mcllvaine- extracted oxytetracycline in soils before planting. However, bioturbation helped increase the H2O-, CaCl2-, and Mcllvaine- extracted oxytetracyline from cinnamon and brown soils with aging. Lastly, correlation analysis indicated that bioaccessibility of oxytetracycline significantly correlates with the total of H2O-, CaCl2-, and Mcllvaine- extracted oxytetracycline (0.676**, p < 0.01) in soils, especially the H2O- (0.789**, p < 0.01) and Mcllvaine- (0.686**, p < 0.01) extracted oxytetracycline with aging. Overall, this study provides some basic understanding of the aging effect on sequestration and bioaccessibility of veterinary antibiotics in soils.

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This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China as a key project (grant no. 21037002) and by the Tianjin Municipal Science and Technology Commission as a youth project (grant no. 13JCQNJC09000) and a key project (grant no. 13JCZDJC35900), and partly supported by the International Foundation for Science, Stockholm, Sweden, and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, Hague, Netherlands, through a grant to Yanyu Bao.

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  1. Key Laboratory of Pollution Processes and Environmental Criteria, Ministry of Education/Tianjin Key Laboratory of Environmental Remediation and Pollution Control, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071, People’s Republic of China

    Yuxia Liu, Yanyu Bao & Qixing Zhou

  2. John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, State College, PA, 16802, USA

    Zhang Cai, Zhenzihao Zhang, Peilin Cao & Xinqian Li

  3. Department of Geosciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, State College, PA, 16802, USA

    Zhang Cai

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Liu, Y., Bao, Y., Cai, Z. et al. The effect of aging on sequestration and bioaccessibility of oxytetracycline in soils. Environ Sci Pollut Res 22, 10425–10433 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-015-4190-7

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