ReviewThe Science of the total environment2022
Pharmaceutical compounds used in the COVID-19 pandemic: A review of their presence in water and treatment techniques for their elimination.
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- Occurrence of antibacterials, antivirals, and anti-inflammatory pharmaceuticals for COVID-19 treatment as emerging contaminants in the Chinese freshwater environment before, during and after the pandemic: the need for dynamic eco-pharmacovigilance.Environmental health and preventive medicine · 2026Review
- Pharmaceutical compounds in marine ecosystems: ecotoxicological effects and risk assessment in phytoplankton and zooplankton.Ecotoxicology (London, England) · 2025Article
- Biodegradation of Chloroquine by a Fungus from Amazonian Soil,Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Azithromycin removal from water via adsorption on drinking water sludge-derived materials: Kinetics and isotherms studies.PloS one · 2025Article
- Occurrence of selected Covid-19 drugs in surface water resources: a review of their sources, pathways, receptors, fate, ecotoxicity, and possible interactions with heavy metals in aquatic ecosystems.Environmental geochemistry and health · 2024Review
- Delineating acetaminophen biodegradation kinetics and metabolomics using bacterial community.Biodegradation · 2024Article
- COVID-19 pandemic-related drugs and microplastics from mask fibers jointly affect soil functions and processes.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2024Article
- Robust CA-GO-TiOPolymers · 2024Article
- Pharmaceutical and Recreational Drug Usage Patterns during and Post COVID-19 Determined by Wastewater-Based Epidemiology.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- Coating of Filter Materials with CeONanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Determination of anti-SARS-CoV-2 virustatic pharmaceuticals in the aquatic environment using high-performance liquid chromatography high-resolution mass spectrometry.Analytical and bioanalytical chemistry · 2023Article
- Recent Developments in Semiconductor-Based Photocatalytic Degradation of Antiviral Drug Pollutants.Toxics · 2023Review
- Microplastics and other emerging contaminants in the environment after COVID-19 pandemic: The need of global reconnaissance studies.Current opinion in environmental science & health · 2023Review
- The occurrence of emerging compounds in real urban wastewater before and after the COVID-19 pandemic in Cali, Colombia.Current opinion in environmental science & health · 2023Review
- A comprehensive review on sustainable clay-based geopolymers for wastewater treatment: circular economy and future outlook.Environmental monitoring and assessment · 2023Review
- Formation of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and furans (PCDD/Fs) in the electrochemical oxidation of polluted waters with pharmaceuticals used against COVID-19.Journal of environmental chemical engineering · 2023Article
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- Integrated full-scale solar CPC/UV-LED-filtration system as a tertiary treatment in a conventional WWTP for agricultural reuse purposes.Photochemical & photobiological sciences : Official journal of the European Photochemistry Association and the European Society for Photobiology · 2023Article
- Plants as Biofactories for Therapeutic Proteins and Antiviral Compounds to Combat COVID-19.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
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Abstract
During the COVID-19 pandemic, high consumption of antivirals, antibiotics, antiparasitics, antiprotozoals, and glucocorticoids used in the treatment of this virus has been reported. Conventional treatment systems fail to efficiently remove these contaminants from water, becoming an emerging concern from the environmental field. Therefore, the objective of the present work is to address the current state of the literature on the presence and removal processes of these drugs from water bodies. It was found that the concentration of most of the drugs used in the treatment of COVID-19 increased during the pandemic in water bodies. Before the pandemic, Azithromycin concentrations in surface waters were reported to be in the order of 4.3 ng L
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