Acute Toxicity Assessment of Antibiotics in Water by Luminiscence Bacteria and Lepidium Sativum

Antibiotics are drugs, which are used extensively by people and animals. The large part of antibiotics, which are consumed by people and animals, is sent to domestic waste sewage. It is stated through researches that these are antibiotics in aquatic habitats around the world. Vibrio fischeri toxicity tests will be used in this study as a method for evaluating the toxicity of synthetic antibiotic wastewater, which is used to determine possible harms of antibiotics for microbial ecology of the receiver environment. Toxicity for plants and aquatic life of wastewater containing antibiotics will be determined and different types of tests will be compared in terms of sensitivity. This research is important in terms of evolution of applicability of toxicity test methods used in this paper and shedding of light on researches that are yet to be carried out in the future. (C) 2015 Published by Elsevier B.V.