Biodegradation and adsorption of antibiotics in the activated sludge process.

By Bing Li, Tong Zhang. Environmental Science and Technology, 2010

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Subfields: Analytical Chemistry, Pharmacology, Pollution

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In Analytical Chemistry

1. Yong-guan Zhu

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1. D. Larsson
2. Yong-guan Zhu
3. A. Singer

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1. Yong-guan Zhu
2. Irene Xagoraraki
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Citations in the corpus

• Prevalence of antibiotics and antibiotic resistance genes in a wastewater effluent-receiving river in the Netherlands (2020, positive): “From the compounds that we detected in the WWTP effluent, sulfonamide is known to be removed from the water-phase by photodegradation and biodegradation [58,46,49], and trimethoprim by sediment adsorption [58].”
• Management Options for Reducing the Release of Antibiotics and Antibiotic Resistance Genes to the Environment (2013, background): “…tetracyclines are removed mainly by adsorption onto the biomass flocs; beta-lactams are largely degraded by hydrolysis reactions driven by bacteria or physical chemical processes; and erythro mycin and ciprofloxacin are recalci trant toward biodegradation in activated sludge (Li and Zhang 2010).”
• Status of pathogens, antibiotic resistance genes and antibiotic residues in wastewater treatment systems (2017, background): “Therefore, tetracycline antibiotics would be adsorbed by activated sludge flocs or biofilm and largely concentrate in sludge at levels as high as 0.1–1 mg/L (Berendonk et al. 2015; Li and Zhang 2010; Zhang 2016).”
• Review of Antimicrobial Resistance in the Environment and Its Relevance to Environmental Regulators (2016, background): “The antibiotics excreted by humans will enter WWTPs, with one of three fates: (1) biodegradation (Chen et al., 2015); (2) absorption to sewage sludge (Li and Zhang, 2010; Ahmed et al., 2015); or (3) exit in the effluent unchanged (Rivera-Utrilla et al., 2013; Luo et al., 2014).”
• Correlation of tetracycline and sulfonamide antibiotics with corresponding resistance genes and resistant bacteria in a conventional municipal wastewater treatment plant. (2012, result): “This apparent difference indicated that the removal mechanism of tetracyclines in WWTPs was mainly attributed to sorption in sludge rather than biodegradation, which is in consistence with other studies (Kim et al., 2005; Li and Zhang, 2010).”