ArticleFrontiers in microbiology2025
Treated wastewater effluent increases pharmaceutical concentrations and alters benthic microbial communities in streams.
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- Antibiotics adsorb to polyester microplastic fibers and alter bacterial communities in stream mesocosms.Frontiers in microbiology · 2026Article
- Wastewater treatment plant effluent alters particle-associated bacterial assemblages in an intermittent stream.Frontiers in microbiology · 2026Article
- The Efficiency and Mechanism of FeOCl/Ce-Catalyzed Persulfate for the Degradation of Caffeine Under Visible Light.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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Abstract
Wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) effluent can be a point source of pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) to surface waters, and these biologically active compounds have the potential to select for resistant traits and taxa within aquatic microbial communities. The goals of this study were to determine if WWTP effluent is a point source of PPCPs to urban streams; to determine if effluent inputs affect benthic microbial community composition; and to determine if effluent inputs increase the abundance of antibiotic resistance determinants within benthic microbial communities. We collected water and sediment from three streams in the Chicago metro area: two urban streams that receive WWTP effluent and one rural stream that does not receive effluent. We quantified concentrations of a suite of 45 common PPCPs in water samples from each stream, including sites upstream and downstream of effluent inputs to the urban streams, analyzed benthic bacterial community composition, and quantified the abundance of
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