Antibiotic detection was performed using SERS (ONSPEC, SCI Innovatech Co., Ltd., Thailand) using silver nanorods as the substrate. The substrate was prepared using a direct current magnetron sputtering system combined with a glancing-angle deposition technique [22 ]. Raman measurements were performed using a handheld Raman spectrometer (Mira M-3, Metrohm AG, Switzerland) with a 785-nm excitation laser. The laser power was 5 mW for measurements in both the solutions and on SERS substrate. The accumulation time for Raman measurements from the solution and on SERS substrate was 20 and 5 s, respectively. Three standard antibiotics (enrofloxacin [100 mg/mL; Bezter, Enro tec 500, Betagro Public Co., Ltd., Thailand], oxytetracycline [50 mg/mL; Oxyclin, General Drugs House Co., Ltd., Thailand], and neomycin [500 g/kg; Neomycin-500, Neotech Impex Co., Ltd., Thailand]) were procured from a veterinary pharmacy and used without further purification.
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