Menglong Geng, Kaiyong Liu, Kun Huang, Yitian Zhu, Peng Ding, Jingjing Zhang, Baolin Wang, Wenwen Liu, Yan Han, Hui Gao, Sheng Wang, Guanjun Chen, Xiaoyan Wu, Fangbiao Tao
Multiple antibiotics are widely used in clinic practice and livestock husbandry, but exposure data based on repeated measurements are scarce among pregnant women. Here, we biomonitored 41 antibiotics and their two metabolites in urine samples from 3235 pregnant women over three trimesters. Spearman's correlation coefficient, intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC), percentile analysis and linear mixed models were employed to evaluate the correlations, variability, co-exposure patterns and predictors of antibiotics, respectively...
October 6, 2020: Environment International