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Decentralized systems for the treatment of antimicrobial compounds released from hospital aquatic wastes.
Sharma, Manisha; Yadav, Ankush; Dubey, Kashyap Kumar; Tipple, Joshua; Das, Diganta Bhusan.
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  • Sharma M; Bioprocess Engineering Laboratory, Department of Biotechnology, Central University of Haryana, Mahendergarh, Haryana 123031, India.
  • Yadav A; Bioprocess Engineering Laboratory, Department of Biotechnology, Central University of Haryana, Mahendergarh, Haryana 123031, India.
  • Dubey KK; Bioprocess Engineering Laboratory, School of Biotechnology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi 110067, India. Electronic address: kashyapdubey@gmail.com.
  • Tipple J; Department of Chemical Engineering, Loughborough University, Loughborough LE11 3TU, United Kingdom.
  • Das DB; Department of Chemical Engineering, Loughborough University, Loughborough LE11 3TU, United Kingdom. Electronic address: d.b.das@lboro.ac.uk.
Sci Total Environ ; 840: 156569, 2022 Sep 20.
Article en En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35690196
ABSTRACT
In many developing countries, untreated hospital effluents are discharged and treated simultaneously with municipal wastewater. However, if the hospital effluents are not treated separately, they pose concerning health risks due to the possible transport of the antimicrobial genes and microbes in the environment. Such effluent is considered as a point source for a number of potentially infectious microorganisms, waste antimicrobial compounds and other contaminants that could promote antimicrobial resistance development. The removal of these contaminants prior to discharge reduces the exposure of antimicrobials to the environment and this should lower the risk of superbug development. At an effluent discharge site, suitable pre-treatment of wastewater containing antimicrobials could maximise the ecological impact with potentially reduced risk to human health. In addressing these points, this paper reviews the applications of decentralized treatment systems toward reducing the concentration of antimicrobials in wastewater. The most commonly used techniques in decentralized wastewater treatment systems for onsite removal of antimicrobials were discussed and evidence suggests that hybrid techniques should be more useful for the efficient removal of antimicrobials. It is concluded that alongside the cooperation of administration departments, health industries, water treatment authorities and general public, decentralized treatment technology can efficiently enhance the removal of antimicrobial compounds, thereby decreasing the concentration of contaminants released to the environment that could pose risks to human and ecological health due to development of antimicrobial resistance in microbes.
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Texto completo: 1 Colección: 01-internacional Base de datos: MEDLINE Asunto principal: Purificación del Agua / Antiinfecciosos Límite: Humans Idioma: En Revista: Sci Total Environ Año: 2022 Tipo del documento: Article País de afiliación: India

Texto completo: 1 Colección: 01-internacional Base de datos: MEDLINE Asunto principal: Purificación del Agua / Antiinfecciosos Límite: Humans Idioma: En Revista: Sci Total Environ Año: 2022 Tipo del documento: Article País de afiliación: India