Antibiotic burden of school children from Tibetan, Hui, and Han groups in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Given their geographical proximity but differences in cultural and religious dietary customs, we hypothesize that children from the three main ethnic populations (Han, Hui, and Tibetan) residing in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau region differs in their non-iatrogenic antibiotic loads.

Methods

To determine the antibiotic burden of the school children unrelated to medical treatment, we quantified the antibiotic residues in morning urine samples from 92 Han, 72 Tibetan, and 85 Muslim Hui primary school children aged 8 to 12 years using high-performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry, and performed correlation analysis between these data and concurrent dietary nutrition assessments.

Results

Sixteen of the 18 targeted antibiotics (4 macrolides, 3 β-

SUBMITTER: Huang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7039500 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature