期刊
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
卷 836, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.155447
关键词
Antimicrobials and their transformation by-products; Antibiotic resistance genes; Photodegradation; Solar light; Titanium dioxide; Wastewater
资金
- National Science Centre (Poland) [2017/27/B/NZ9/00267]
- Programme Inter-disciplinary Doctoral Studies in Bioeconomy [POWR.03.02.00 00 I034/16 00]
- European Social Funds
This study aimed to assess the possibility of using solar light-driven photolysis and TiO2-based photocatalysis to remove antibiotic residues and related genes. The results showed that these methods have good performance in removing antibiotics, transformation products, and genes in treated wastewater.
This study aimed to assess the possibility of using solar light-driven photolysis and TiO2-based photocatalysis to remove (1) antibiotic residues, (2) their transformation products (TPs), (3) antibiotic resistance determinants, and (4) genes identifying the indicator bacteria in a treated wastewater (secondary effluent). 16 antimicrobials belonging to the different classes and 45 their transformation by-products were selected for the study. The most susceptible to photochemical decomposition was tetracycline, which was completely removed in the photocatalysis process and in more than 80% in the solar light-driven photolysis. 83.8% removal (on average) was observed using photolysis and 89.9% using photocatalysis in the case of the tested genes, among which the genes sul1, uidA, and intI1 showed the highest degree of removal by both methods. The study revealed that applied methods promisingly remove the tested antibiotics, their TPs and genes even in such a complex matrix including treated wastewater and photocatalysis process had a higher removal efficiency of antibiotics, TPs and genes tested. Moreover, the high percentage removal of the intI1 gene (> 93%) indicates the possibilities of use of the solar light-driven photolysis and TiO2-based photocatalysis in minimizing the antibiotic resistance genes transfer by mobile genetic elements.
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