Review on fate and mechanism of removal of pharmaceutical pollutants from wastewater using biological approach.

By Bhagyashree Tiwari, B. Sellamuthu, Yassine Ouarda, P. Drogui, R. Tyagi, G. Buelna. Bioresource Technology, 2017

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Microalgae-based wastewater treatment: Mechanisms, challenges, recent advances, and future prospects (2022, background): “Microalgae-mediated biodegradation takes place extraor intracellularly, or in a combination of both locations, with extracellular breakdown followed by intracellular decomposition of the breakdown intermediates [107].”
A review on co-cultivation of microalgae with filamentous fungi: Efficient harvesting, wastewater treatment and biofuel production (2021, positive): “In addition, microalgae are proved to have ability in removing organic micro-pollutants, such as pharmaceutical pollutants, antibiotics, steroidal hormones and other emerging contaminants [116, 146,147].”