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ReviewApplied microbiology and biotechnology2021

Removal of pharmaceuticals by ammonia oxidizers during nitrification.

Gang Wu, Jinju Geng, Ke Xu, Hongqiang Ren

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Review in Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Removal of Ampicillin with Nitrifying Cultures in a SBR Reactor.Applied biochemistry and biotechnology · 2025
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  3. Physiological adaptation and population dynamics of a nitrifying sludge exposed to ampicillin.International microbiology : the official journal of the Spanish Society for Microbiology · 2024
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4 authors.

Gang WuState Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, School of the Environment, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China.
Jinju GengState Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, School of the Environment, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China. jjgeng@nju.edu.cn.
Ke XuState Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, School of the Environment, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China.
Hongqiang RenState Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, School of the Environment, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China.

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China 21677071National Natural Science Foundation of China 51978327Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province BK20180010
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The adverse effect of pharmaceuticals on ecosystem and human health raises great interest for the removal of pharmaceuticals in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs). Enhanced removal of pharmaceuticals by ammonia oxidizers (AOs) has been observed during nitrification. This review provides a comprehensive summary on the removal of pharmaceuticals by AOs-ammonia oxidizing bacteria (AOB), ammonia oxidizing archaea (AOA), and complete ammonia oxidizer (comammox) during nitrification in pure ammonia oxidizing culture and mixed microbes systems. The superior removal of pharmaceuticals by AOs in conditions with nitrifying activity compared with the conditions without nitrifying activity was proposed. The contribution of AOs on pharmaceuticals removal in pure and mixed microbe systems was discussed and activated sludge modeling was suggested as the proper measure on assessing the contribution of AOs on the removal of pharmaceuticals in mixed microbe culture. Three transformation processes and the involved reaction types of pharmaceuticals transformation during nitrification were reviewed. The present paper provides a systematical summary on pharmaceuticals removal by different AOs across pure and mixed microbes culture during nitrification, which opens up the opportunity to optimize the wastewater biological treatment systems for enhanced removal of pharmaceuticals. KEY POINTS: • The superior removal of pharmaceuticals by ammonia oxidizers (AOs) was summarized. • The removal contribution of pharmaceuticals attributed by AOs was elucidated. • The transformation processes and reaction types of pharmaceuticals were discussed.

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NitrificationPharmaceutical PreparationsAmmoniaArchaeaBacteriaEcosystemHumansOxidation-ReductionPhylogenySoil MicrobiologyAmmoniaPharmaceutical PreparationsAmmonia oxidizersNitrificationPharmaceuticalsWastewater biological treatment systems

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