ReviewJournal of environmental chemical engineering2021
A review on hospital wastewater treatment: A special emphasis on occurrence and removal of pharmaceutically active compounds, resistant microorganisms, and SARS-CoV-2.
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57 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Prevalence and multidrug resistance patterns of bacterial pathogens in wastewater and drinking water systems from hospital and non-hospital environments in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC infectious diseases · 2025Pooled it
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- Montmorillonite-fungal biomass hybrid as sustainable sorbent in rotating-disk sorptive extraction coupled to GC-MS for trace-level monitoring of estrogens in hospital wastewater.Analytical and bioanalytical chemistry · 2026Article
- Hospital performance evaluation for UN Sustainable Developmental Goals (SDGs): a practical multi-criteria decision making model based on root assessment method (RAM).The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care · 2026Article
- Adsorption of Pharmaceutical Contaminants from a Real Hospital Effluent Using Açaí Biomass-Derived Biochar Modified via Magnetron Sputtering.ACS omega · 2026Article
- High prevalence of ESBL encoding genes in enterobacterales isolated from hospital and environmental wastewater in Pakistan- One Health challenge.Molecular biology reports · 2026Article
- RANSAC guided modeling and evolutionary optimization of UV/sulfite for ofloxacin removal.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Metagenomic and Targeted Next-Generation Sequencing in Infectious Disease Diagnostics: Current Applications, Challenges, and Future Perspectives.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Artificial Intelligence in Computer-Aided Drug Design (CADD) Tools for the Finding of Potent Biologically Active Small Molecules: Traditional to Modern Approach.Combinatorial chemistry & high throughput screening · 2026Review
- Screening and optimization of online comprehensive two-dimensional liquid chromatography conditions for the analysis of hospital wastewater.Analytical and bioanalytical chemistry · 2026Article
- Integrated monitoring of enveloped viruses in hospital environments: Detection, persistence, and implications for infection control.PloS one · 2026Article
- A quantitative characterization of antibiotic resistance and its influencing factors in hospital wastewaters across Lebanon.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Algal-based membrane bioreactors: a sustainable Frontier for removing emerging pollutants from wastewater.RSC advances · 2025Review
- Emerging contaminants in healthcare effluents: antibiotic resistance and virulence factor dissemination.Folia microbiologica · 2025Review
- Anaerobic reactors for hospital wastewater treatment: a critical review of microbial communities in the antibiotic biodegradation and ecotoxicological impacts.Biodegradation · 2025Review
- Acanthamoeba castellanii Can Facilitate Plasmid Transfer Between Environmental Pseudomonas spp.Journal of basic microbiology · 2025Article
- Development SPE-LC-MS/MS method for determination of WHO AWaRe Reserve antibiotics in hospital wastewater.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Microbiological and chemical characterization of coastal hospital wastewater in Oran, Algeria: Implications for public and livestock health under a One Health framework.Veterinary world · 2025Article
- Profiling of Bacterial Communities of Hospital Wastewater Reveals Clinically Relevant Genera and Antimicrobial Resistance Genes.Microorganisms · 2025Article
- Characterization of transferable antibiotic resistance plasmids in airborne particulate matter from ICU environments.iScience · 2025Article
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Abstract
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 COVID-19 pandemic demanded a global attention towards monitoring viruses and other infectious pathogens in hospital wastewater and their removal. Apart from that, the presence of various recalcitrant organics, pharmaceutically active compounds (PhACs), etc. imparts a complex pollution load to water resources and ecosystem. In this review, an insight into the occurrence, persistence and removal of drug-resistant microorganisms and infectious viruses as well as other micro-pollutants have been documented. The performance of various pilot/full-scale studies have been evaluated in terms of removal of biochemical oxygen demand (BOD), chemical oxygen demand (COD), total suspended solids (TSS), PhACs, pathogens, etc. It was found that many biological processes, such as membrane bioreactor, activated sludge process, constructed wetlands, etc. provided more than 80% removal of BOD, COD, TSS, etc. However, the removal of several recalcitrant organic pollutants are less responsive to those processes and demands the application of tertiary treatments, such as adsorption, ozone treatment, UV treatment, etc. Antibiotic-resistant microorganisms, viruses were found to be persistent even after the treatment of hospital wastewater, and high dose of chlorination or UV treatment was required to inactivate them. This article circumscribes the various emerging technologies, which have been used to treat PhACs and pathogens. The present review also emphasized the global concern of the presence of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in hospital wastewater and its removal by the existing treatment facilities.
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