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Various strategies applied for the removal of emerging micropollutant sulfamethazine: a systematic review

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Pharmaceutical active drug(s) especially sulfamethazine (SMZ) is considered as one of the major emerging microcontaminants due its long-term existence in the environmental system and that can influence on the developmental of antibacterial resistance genes. Because of this region it has a great concern in the aquatic system. Moreover, the vast utilization of SMZ, excretion of undigested portion by animals and also through dumping or mishandling, SMZ is frequently detected in various samples (including water) of different places and its surroundings. Additionally, reports shown it has toxic effect against microalgae and mice. Thus, that can lead to several investigators, focusing on removal of SMZ alone or in combination of other drugs in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) either by abiotic and/or biotic treatment methods. The present review provides an overview of the toxic effect of SMZ and SMZ degradation/removal in abiotic and biotic processes. Finally, reveals the need of further implication of integrated treatments (including engineered biological mediators) to understand ideal biological approaches for the mineralization of SMZ.

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This study was supported by the Korea Ministry of Environment (MOE) as The Environmental Health Action Program under Project No. 2016001350005.

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  1. Department of Biochemistry, School of Applied Sciences, REVA University, Bangalore, 560064, India

    Sikandar I. Mulla

  2. Division of Biotechnology, Jeonbuk National University, Iksan, 54596, Republic of Korea

    Sikandar I. Mulla & Jong-Chan Chae

  3. Department of Biotechnology, KLE Technological University, Hubballi, Karnataka, 580031, India

    Zabin K. Bagewadi

  4. Department of Physics, School of Applied Sciences, REVA University, Bangalore, 560064, India

    Basheerabegum Faniband

  5. School of Life Science and Food Engineering, Huaiyin Institute of Technology, Huaian, China

    Muhammad Bilal

  6. Department of Pure and Applied Botany, College of Biosciences, Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta, Ogun State, Abeokuta, 234039, Nigeria

    Paul Olusegun Bankole

  7. Department of Food Science and Biotechnology, Dongguk University-Seoul, Ilsandong-gu, Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do 10326, Republic of Korea

    Ganesh Dattatraya Saratale

  8. Department of Environmental Microbiology (DEM), School for Environmental Sciences (SES), Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University (A Central University), Vidya Vihar, Raebareli Road, Uttar Pradesh, , Lucknow 226 025, India

    Ram Naresh Bhargava

  9. Department of Biotechnology, GM Institute of Technology, Davangere, KA, 577006, India

    Dummi Mahadevan Gurumurthy

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Sikandar I. Mulla: conceptualization, visualization, writing—original draft, writing—review and editing

Zabin K. Bagewadi: writing–original draft–review and editing

Basheerabegum Faniband: writing–original draft–review and editing

Muhammad Bilal: writing–original draft–review and editing

Jong-Chan Chae: supervision, funding acquisition and editing

Paul Olusegun Bankole: review and editing

Ganesh Dattatraya Saratale: review and editing

Ram Naresh Bhargava: review and editing

Dummi Mahadevan Gurumurthy: conceptualization, visualization, writing–original draft, writing–review and editing

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Mulla, S.I., Bagewadi, Z.K., Faniband, B. et al. Various strategies applied for the removal of emerging micropollutant sulfamethazine: a systematic review. Environ Sci Pollut Res 30, 71599–71613 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-021-14259-w

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