| Title |
Ecotoxicity and antibiotic resistance of a mixture of hospital and urban sewage in a wastewater treatment plant
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Environmental Science and Pollution Research, September 2017
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| DOI | 10.1007/s11356-017-9957-6 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Marine Laquaz, Christophe Dagot, Christine Bazin, Thérèse Bastide, Margaux Gaschet, Marie-Cécile Ploy, Yves Perrodin |
| Abstract |
Hospital and urban effluents are a source of diverse pollutants such as organic compounds, heavy metals, detergents, disinfectants, pharmaceuticals, and microorganisms resistant to antibiotics. Usually, these two types of effluent are mixed in the sewage network, but a pilot site in France now allows studying them separately or mixed to understand more about their characteristics and the phenomena that occur following their mixing. In this study, their ecotoxicity (Daphnia magna mobility, Pseudokirchneriella subcapitata growth, Brachionus calyciflorus reproduction, and SOS Chromotest) and antibiotic resistance (integron quantification) were assessed during mixing and treatment steps. The main results of this study are (i) the ecotoxicity and antibiotic resistance potentials of hospital wastewater are higher than in urban wastewater and (ii) mixing two different effluents does not lead to global synergistic or antagonistic effects on ecotoxicity and antibiotic resistance potential. The global additivity effect observed in this case must be confirmed by other studies on hospital and urban effluents on other sites to improve knowledge relating to this source of pollution and its management. |
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| Haiti | 2 | 67% |
| Unknown | 1 | 33% |
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| Type | Count | As % |
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| Scientists | 2 | 67% |
| Members of the public | 1 | 33% |
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| Unknown | 93 | 100% |
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| Researcher | 24 | 26% |
| Student > Master | 12 | 13% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 8 | 9% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 5 | 5% |
| Student > Bachelor | 5 | 5% |
| Other | 14 | 15% |
| Unknown | 25 | 27% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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| Environmental Science | 15 | 16% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 8 | 9% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 7 | 8% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 5 | 5% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 4 | 4% |
| Other | 16 | 17% |
| Unknown | 38 | 41% |
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