A review on hospital wastewater treatment: A special emphasis on occurrence and removal of pharmaceutically active compounds, resistant microorganisms, and …

A Majumder, AK Gupta, PS Ghosal, M Varma - Journal of environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
The hospital wastewater imposes a potent threat to the security of human health concerning
its high vulnerability towards the outbreak of several diseases. Furthermore, the outbreak of …

Critical review of phytoremediation for the removal of antibiotics and antibiotic resistance genes in wastewater

K McCorquodale-Bauer, R Grosshans… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Antibiotics in wastewater are a growing environmental concern. Increased prescription and
consumption rates have resulted in higher antibiotic wastewater concentration …

A review of emerging organic contaminants (EOCs), antibiotic resistant bacteria (ARB), and antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in the environment: Increasing removal …

J García, MJ García-Galán, JW Day, R Boopathy… - Bioresource …, 2020 - Elsevier
Emerging organic contaminants (EOCs) include a diverse group of chemical compounds,
such as pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs), pesticides, hormones …

Performance of secondary wastewater treatment methods for the removal of contaminants of emerging concern implicated in crop uptake and antibiotic resistance …

P Krzeminski, MC Tomei, P Karaolia… - Science of the Total …, 2019 - Elsevier
Contaminants of emerging concern (CEC) discharged in effluents of wastewater treatment
plants (WWTPs), not specifically designed for their removal, pose serious hazards to human …

Occurrence of antibiotics and antibiotic resistance genes in WWTP effluent-receiving water bodies and reclaimed wastewater treatment plants

R Wang, M Ji, H Zhai, Y Guo, Y Liu - Science of the Total Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
There is a growing concern on the fate and the consequent ecological or health risks of
antibiotics and antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in natural or artificial water environment …

A review on removing antibiotics and antibiotic resistance genes from wastewater by constructed wetlands: performance and microbial response

X Liu, X Guo, Y Liu, S Lu, B Xi, J Zhang, Z Wang… - Environmental …, 2019 - Elsevier
Pollution caused by antibiotics has been highlighted in recent decades as a worldwide
environmental and health concern. Compared to traditional physical, chemical and …

A review of the influence of treatment strategies on antibiotic resistant bacteria and antibiotic resistance genes

VK Sharma, N Johnson, L Cizmas, TJ McDonald… - Chemosphere, 2016 - Elsevier
Antibiotic resistant bacteria (ARB) and antibiotic resistance genes (ARG) in the aquatic
environment have become an emerging contaminant issue, which has implications for …

Metagenomic and network analysis reveal wide distribution and co-occurrence of environmental antibiotic resistance genes

B Li, Y Yang, L Ma, F Ju, F Guo, JM Tiedje… - The ISME …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
A metagenomic approach and network analysis was used to investigate the wide-spectrum
profiles of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) and their co-occurrence patterns in 50 …

Deciphering of microbial community and antibiotic resistance genes in activated sludge reactors under high selective pressure of different antibiotics

R Zhao, J Feng, J Liu, W Fu, X Li, B Li - Water Research, 2019 - Elsevier
Currently, the effects of high antibiotic concentrations on the performance of microbiota and
antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in activated sludge (AS) process are not well …

The role of biofilms as environmental reservoirs of antibiotic resistance

JL Balcázar, J Subirats, CM Borrego - Frontiers in microbiology, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Antibiotic resistance has become a significant and growing threat to public and
environmental health. To face this problem both at local and global scales, a better …