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Fate and toxicity of pharmaceuticals in water environment: An insight on their occurrence in South Asia.

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A critical understanding of fate and toxicity of pharmaceutical compounds is provided and their vulnerability and occurrence in South Asia is highlighted and more in-depth and interdisciplinary understanding of the subject is developed.
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This article is published in Journal of Environmental Management.The article was published on 2020-10-01. It has received 95 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Water environment.

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Recent advances in using of chitosan-based adsorbents for removal of pharmaceutical contaminants: A review

TL;DR: In this paper, a critical review of chitosan-based materials for the removal of pharmaceutical compounds is presented. But, the results of the review are limited to three categories: antibiotics (tetracycline, amoxicillin, etc.), non-steroidal anti-inflammatory (diclofenac, ibuprofen, etc.) and other pharmaceutical compounds.
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Ecotoxicological effects, environmental fate and risks of pharmaceutical and personal care products in the water environment: A review.

TL;DR: In this paper, the toxicological effects of typical pharmaceutical and personal care products (PPCPs) and the environmental behavior of PPCPs in aquatic are reviewed, and the risk assessments of PLCPs in the water are summarized.
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Comparative overview of advanced oxidation processes and biological approaches for the removal pharmaceuticals.

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the state of the art related to AOPs, biological treatment and their effective exploitation for the degradation of various pharmaceuticals and other emerging molecules present in wastewater is presented.
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Occurrence and removal of pharmaceuticals in wastewater treatment plants

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors aim to systematically review the current data available on the global occurrence and removal of 43 pharmaceutical compounds in municipal wastewater treatment plants (M-WWTPs) in the period from 2010 to 2020.
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High concentration and high dose of disinfectants and antibiotics used during the COVID-19 pandemic threaten human health

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the potential ecological environment impacts of disinfectants and antibiotics by summarizing their utilization, environmental occurrence, distribution and toxicity, and highlighted the promoting effects of disinfectant and antibiotics on antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) and even antibiotic resistant bacteria (ARB).
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Identification of acquired antimicrobial resistance genes

TL;DR: A web server providing a convenient way of identifying acquired antimicrobial resistance genes in completely sequenced isolates was created, and the method was evaluated on WGS chromosomes and plasmids of 30 isolates.
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Coming of age: ten years of next-generation sequencing technologies

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