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A comprehensive review on quinolone contamination in environments: current research progress

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Quinolone (QN) antibiotics are a kind of broad-spectrum antibiotics commonly used in the treatment of human and animal diseases. They have the characteristics of strong antibacterial activity, stable metabolism, low production cost, and no cross-resistance with other antibacterial drugs. They are widely used in the world. QN antibiotics cannot be completely digested and absorbed in organisms and are often excreted in urine and feces in the form of original drugs or metabolites, which are widely occurring in surface water, groundwater, aquaculture wastewater, sewage treatment plants, sediments, and soil environment, thus causing environmental pollution. In this paper, the pollution status, biological toxicity, and removal methods of QN antibiotics at home and abroad were reviewed. Literature data showed that QNs and its metabolites had serious ecotoxicity. Meanwhile, the spread of drug resistance induced by continuous emission of QNs should not be ignored. In addition, adsorption, chemical oxidation, photocatalysis, and microbial removal of QNs are often affected by a variety of experimental conditions, and the removal is not complete, so it is necessary to combine a variety of processes to efficiently remove QNs in the future.

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  1. Water Source Exploration Team, Guizhou Bureau of Coal Geological Exploration, Guiyang, 550000, China

    Chendong Yang

  2. Guizhou Coal Mine Geological Engineering Consultant and Geological Environmental Monitoring Center, Guiyang, 550000, China

    Chendong Yang

  3. College of Resources and Environmental Engineering, Key Laboratory of Karst Georesources and Environment, Ministry of Education, Guizhou University, Guiyang, 550025, China

    Chendong Yang & Tianyu Wu

  4. Guizhou Karst Environmental Ecosystems Observation and Research Station, Ministry of Education, Guiyang, 550025, China

    Chendong Yang & Tianyu Wu

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Chendong Yang: conceptualization, data curation, formal analysis, methodology, visualization, validation, writing—original draft. Tianyu Wu: conceptualization, formal analysis, supervision, validation, writing—review and editing.

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1. the basic information and use status of quinolone (QN) antibiotics were introduced.

2. the distribution characteristics of QN antibiotics in different environmental media were reviewed.

3. the environmental hazards and removal methods of QN antibiotics are summarized.

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Yang, C., Wu, T. A comprehensive review on quinolone contamination in environments: current research progress. Environ Sci Pollut Res 30, 48778–48792 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-023-26263-3

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