Effects of Antibacterial Agents on Nitrification in an Aquatic Recirculating System
- 1 February 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Canadian Science Publishing in Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada
- Vol. 33 (2) , 215-218
- https://doi.org/10.1139/f76-032
Abstract
Treatment of recirculating systems with a single dose of erythromycin (50 mg/liter) resulted in nitrate reduction and stopped nitrification for 14 days as evidenced by changes in pH and ammonia, nitrite and nitrate concentrations. Treatment of systems with 2-chloro-6-(trichloromethyl) pyridine, a known nitrification inhibitor, inhibited nitrification similarly. Treatment with chloramphenicol (50 mg/liter), oxytetracycline (50 mg/liter), sulfamerazine (50 mg/liter), or nifurpirinol (1 mg/liter) had no effect on nitrification.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: