April 2015

Ecotoxicology of drugs used in fish disease treatment

The fish Hyphessobrycon eques and Piaractus mesopotamicus, the snail Pomacea canaliculata, the aquatic plant Lemna minor and the microcustacean Daphnia magna were selected to evaluate the lethal or effective concentration (LC50/EC50) and the environmental risk of florfenicol (FLO), enrofloxacine (ENR), thiamethoxan (TH) and toltrazuril (TOL). For this, the organisms were acclimated in a bioassay room under controlled...

Author(s): Silvia Patrícia Carraschi, Taise Florêncio, Nathália Garlich, Adilson Ferreira da Silva, Aline Marcari Marques, Claudinei da Cruz and Maria José Tavares Ranzani Paiva