Determination of selected antiretroviral drugs in wastewater, surface water and aquatic plants using hollow fibre liquid phase microextraction and liquid chromatography - tandem mass spectrometry.

This work describes a simple and sensitive method for the simultaneous isolation, enrichment, identification and quantitation of selected antiretroviral drugs; emtricitabine, tenofovir disoproxil and efavirenz in aqueous samples and plants. The analytical method was based on microwave extraction and hollow fibre liquid phase microextraction technique coupled with ultra-high pressure liquid chromatography-high resolution mass spectrometry. A multivariate approach via a half-fractional factorial design was used focusing on six factors; donor phase pH, acceptor phase HCl concentration, extraction time, stirring rate, supported liquid membrane carrier composition and salt content. The optimal enrichment factors for emtricitabine, tenofovir disoproxil and efavirenz from aqueous phase were 78, 111 and 24, respectively. The analytical method yielded recoveries in the range of 86 to 111%, and quantitation limits for emtricitabine, tenofovir disoproxil and efavirenz in wastewater were 0.033, 0.10 and 0.53 μg L-1, respectively. The drugs were detected in most samples with concentrations up to 37.6 μg L-1 recorded for efavirenz in wastewater effluent. Roots of the water hyacinth plant had higher concentrations of the investigated drugs ranging from 7.4 to 29.6 μg kg-1. Overall, hollow fibre liquid phase microextraction proved to be an ideal tool for isolating and pre-concentrating the selected antiretroviral drugs from environmental samples.

• Publication year

  2020

• Venue

  Journal of Hazardous Materials

• Publication date

  2020-01-15

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Chemistry, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2019.121067PMID 31476719
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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