Microbiological contaminants in drinking water: Current status and challenges

RA Kristanti, T Hadibarata, M Syafrudin… - Water, Air, & Soil …, 2022 - Springer
Water is a vital resource to every living thing on the earth. Once the water is contaminated
(physically, chemically, biologically, or radiologically), it brought negative impacts to the …

Antibiotic resistance in the drinking water: old and new strategies to remove antibiotics, resistant bacteria, and resistance genes

AC Duarte, S Rodrigues, A Afonso, A Nogueira… - Pharmaceuticals, 2022 - mdpi.com
Bacterial resistance is a naturally occurring process. However, bacterial antibiotic resistance
has emerged as a major public health problem in recent years. The accumulation of …

Mitigating mechanism of nZVI-C on the inhibition of anammox consortia under long-term tetracycline hydrochloride stress: Extracellular polymeric substance …

L Zhang, Z Song, T Dong, X Fan, Y Peng… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2023 - Elsevier
In this study, activated carbon-loaded nano-zero-valent iron (nZVI-C) composites were
added to anaerobic ammonium oxidation bacteria (AnAOB) to overcome the inhibition of …

Ancient oriental wisdom still works: removing ARGs in drinking water by boiling as compared to chlorination

K Wan, S Zheng, C Ye, D Hu, Y Zhang, H Dao, S Chen… - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in municipal drinking water may not be effectively
removed during centralized treatment. To reduce potential health risks, water disinfection at …

A global perspective on compositions, risks, and ecological genesis of antibiotic resistance genes in biofilters of drinking water treatment plants

J Liang, H Lin, B Singh, A Wang, Z Yan - Water Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in biofilters of drinking water treatment plants (DWTPs)
are regarded to be a remarkable potential health risk to human. A global survey on ARGs in …

[HTML][HTML] The importance of superoxide anion for Escherichia coli biofilm removal using plasma-activated water

B Xia, HKN Vyas, R Zhou, T Zhang, J Hong… - Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Microbial biofilms cause contaminations in different environmental settings, including
pipelines, filters, membranes, food and processing infrastructure. They ultimately pose a …

Removal and distribution of antibiotics and resistance genes in conventional and advanced drinking water treatment processes

J Wang, X Sha, X Chen, H Zhuo, W Xie, Z Zhou… - Journal of Water …, 2022 - Elsevier
With the extensive detection of antibiotics and antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in drinking
water treatment plants, the safety of drinking water has received increased attention …

Assessing synchronous removal of nutrients and SMX based on novel Mn-C composites: Impact of different proportion of manganese dioxide

L Jia, Q Zhou, Y Li, W Wu - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2023 - Elsevier
In this study, Mn-C composites using different MnO 2 contents and solid carbon material
were prepared to explore the synchronous removal performance of nutrients and SMX …

Antibiotics removal and antimicrobial resistance control by ozone/peroxymonosulfate-biological activated carbon: A novel treatment process

XY Zhang, TS Liu, JY Hu - Water Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Biological activated carbon (BAC) is one of the important treatment processes in wastewater
and advanced water treatment. However, the BAC process has been reported to have …

[HTML][HTML] Microbiome, resistome and mobilome of chlorine-free drinking water treatment systems

D Calderón-Franco, F Corbera-Rubio, M Cuesta-Sanz… - Water Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Drinking water treatment plants (DWTPs) are designed to remove physical, chemical, and
biological contaminants. However, until recently, the role of DWTPs in minimizing the cycling …