Simultaneous determination of macrolides in water samples by solid-phase extraction and capillary electrophoresis. 2023

Dragana Mutavdžić Pavlović, and Sandra Babić, and Mirta Čizmić, and Miranda Sertić, and Tea Pinušić
1University of Zagreb Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Department of Analytical Chemistry, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia.

Solid-phase extraction (SPE) coupled with capillary electrophoresis (CE) for the determination of macrolide antibiotics (azithromycin, clarithromycin, roxithromycin, tylosin) and tiamulin in water samples was described in this article. These compounds were extracted with different types of sorbents ( Oasis HLB, C18, C8, SDB, and Strata-X) and different masses of sorbents (60 mg, 200 mg, and 500 mg) using different organic solvents (methanol, ethanol, and acetonitrile) and different pH values of water samples (pH 7.00, 8.00, and 9.00). It was found that the highest extraction efficiency of the studied compounds was obtained with 200 mg/3 mL C18 cartridges with methanol as eluent at pH 9.00 of the water sample. The developed SPE-CE method for macrolide antibiotics and tiamulin was validated for linearity, precision, repeatability, the limit of detection (LOD), the limit of quantification (LOQ), and recovery. Good linearity was obtained in the range of 0.3-30 mg L-1 depending on the drug, with correlation coefficients higher than 0.9958 in all cases except clarithromycin (0.9873). Expanded measurement uncertainties were calculated for each pharmaceutical, accounting for 20.31 % (azithromycin), 38.33 % (tiamulin), 28.95 % (clarithromycin), 26.99 % (roxithromycin), and 21.09 % (tiamulin). Uncertainties associated with precision and calibration curves contributed the most to the combined measurement uncertainty. The method was successfully applied to the analysis of production waste-water from the pharmaceutical industry.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries

Related Publications

Dragana Mutavdžić Pavlović, and Sandra Babić, and Mirta Čizmić, and Miranda Sertić, and Tea Pinušić
April 2009, Journal of chromatography. A,
Dragana Mutavdžić Pavlović, and Sandra Babić, and Mirta Čizmić, and Miranda Sertić, and Tea Pinušić
July 2008, Journal of separation science,
Dragana Mutavdžić Pavlović, and Sandra Babić, and Mirta Čizmić, and Miranda Sertić, and Tea Pinušić
June 2000, Journal of chromatography. B, Biomedical sciences and applications,
Dragana Mutavdžić Pavlović, and Sandra Babić, and Mirta Čizmić, and Miranda Sertić, and Tea Pinušić
August 2006, Electrophoresis,
Dragana Mutavdžić Pavlović, and Sandra Babić, and Mirta Čizmić, and Miranda Sertić, and Tea Pinušić
February 2017, Journal of chromatography. A,
Dragana Mutavdžić Pavlović, and Sandra Babić, and Mirta Čizmić, and Miranda Sertić, and Tea Pinušić
August 2002, Journal of chromatographic science,
Dragana Mutavdžić Pavlović, and Sandra Babić, and Mirta Čizmić, and Miranda Sertić, and Tea Pinušić
February 2003, Journal of chromatography. B, Analytical technologies in the biomedical and life sciences,
Dragana Mutavdžić Pavlović, and Sandra Babić, and Mirta Čizmić, and Miranda Sertić, and Tea Pinušić
June 2007, Journal of chromatography. A,
Dragana Mutavdžić Pavlović, and Sandra Babić, and Mirta Čizmić, and Miranda Sertić, and Tea Pinušić
October 1998, Journal of chromatography. A,
Dragana Mutavdžić Pavlović, and Sandra Babić, and Mirta Čizmić, and Miranda Sertić, and Tea Pinušić
September 2017, Scientific reports,
Copied contents to your clipboard!