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Uriel Arreguin-Rebolledo1,2, Levi Asher Morales-Romero1, Mario Alberto Arzate-Cárdenas3
1Centro de Ciencias Básicas, Departamento de Química, Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes, Avenida Universidad 940, C.P. 20130, Aguascalientes, Ags, México.
Abstract:
Organisms are usually exposed to mixtures of emerging pollutants in aquatic environments. Due to their widespread use and environmental relevance, the individual and combined effects of the drugs azithromycin (AZT) and ivermectin (IVM) on the freshwater rotifer Lecane papuana and the euryhaline rotifer Proales similis were investigated. Rotifers showed greater sensitivity to IVM compared to AZT. The LC50 values of IVM and AZT for L. papuana and P. similis were 0.163 and 0.172 mg/L, and 13.52 and 20.00 mg/L, respectively. Population growth rates, assessed in chronic toxicity assays, responded negatively to increasing concentrations of both toxicants, either individually or in combination. Our results revealed two distinct combined toxicity responses: a strong synergistic effect in the freshwater rotifer and a marked antagonistic impact of the AZT-IVM mixtures in the euryhaline rotifer.
