The DOI matches its Crossref record; 5 of the 5 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
Insights into the Fate and Removal of Antibiotics in Engineered Biological Treatment Systems: A Critical Review
Abstract
Antibiotics, the most frequently prescribed drugs of modern medicine, are extensively used for both human and veterinary applications. Antibiotics from different wastewater sources (e.g., municipal, hospitals, animal production, and pharmaceutical industries) ultimately are discharged into wastewater treatment plants. Sorption and biodegradation are the two major removal pathways of antibiotics during biological wastewater treatment processes. This review provides the fundamental insights into sorption mechanisms and biodegradation pathways of different classes of antibiotics with diverse physical-chemical attributes. Important factors affecting sorption and biodegradation behavior of antibiotics are also highlighted. Furthermore, this review also sheds light on the critical role of extracellular polymeric substances on antibiotics adsorption and their removal in engineered biological wastewater treatment systems. Despite major advancements, engineered biological wastewater treatment systems are only moderately effective (48-77%) in the removal of antibiotics. In this review, we systematically summarize the behavior and removal of different antibiotics in various biological treatment systems with discussion on their removal efficiency, removal mechanisms, critical bioreactor operating conditions affecting antibiotics removal, and recent innovative advancements. Besides, relevant background information including antibiotics classification, physical-chemical properties, and their occurrence in the environment from different sources is also briefly covered. This review aims to advance our understanding of the fate of various classes of antibiotics in engineered biological wastewater treatment systems and outlines future research directions.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
Global increase and geographic convergence in antibiotic consumption between 2000 and 2015
Klein, E. Y., Van Boeckel, T. P., Martinez, E. M., Pant, S., Gandra, S., Levin, S. A., Goossens, H., & Laxminarayan, R. (2018) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.1717295115 · Cited by 3,232
Rizzo, L., Manaia, C., Merlin, C., Schwartz, T., Dagot, C., Ploy, M. C., Michael, I., & Fatta-Kassinos, D. (2013) · Science of The Total Environment · doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.01.032 · Cited by 2,493
Göbel, A., Thomsen, A., McArdell, C. S., Joss, A., & Giger, W. (2005) · Environmental Science & Technology · doi:10.1021/es048550a · Cited by 760
Huang, D., Wang, X., Zhang, C., Zeng, G., Peng, Z., Zhou, J., Cheng, M., Wang, R., Hu, Z., & Qin, X. (2017) · Chemosphere · doi:10.1016/j.chemosphere.2017.07.154 · Cited by 208
Mohatt, J. L., Hu, L., Finneran, K. T., & Strathmann, T. J. (2011) · Environmental Science & Technology · doi:10.1021/es200413g · Cited by 160
Cited by
Xiong, Q., Hu, L.-X., Liu, Y.-S., Zhao, J.-L., He, L.-Y., & Ying, G.-G. (2021) · Environment International · doi:10.1016/j.envint.2021.106594 · Cited by 280
Mutuku, C., Gazdag, Z., & Melegh, S. (2022) · World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology · doi:10.1007/s11274-022-03334-0 · Cited by 280
PVA-assisted CNCs/SiO2 composite aerogel for efficient sorption of ciprofloxacin
Ruan, C., Chen, G., Ma, Y., Du, C., He, C., Liu, X., Jin, X., Chen, Q., He, S., & Huang, Y. (2023) · Journal of Colloid and Interface Science · doi:10.1016/j.jcis.2022.10.020 · Cited by 49
Metadata
- Authors
- Oberoi, A. S., Jia, Y., Zhang, H., Khanal, S. K., & Lu, H.
- Venue
- Environmental Science & Technology
- Publisher
- American Chemical Society (ACS)
- Published
- 2019-06-03
- Volume
- 53
- Issue
- 13
- Pages
- 7234-7264
- ISSN
- 0013-936X (ISSN-L)
- 1520-5851
- OpenAlex
- W2948702625
- Cited by
- 1,061
- References
- 5
- FWCI
- 23.20
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: Insights into the Fate and Removal of Antibiotics in Engineered Biological Treatment Systems: A Critical Review. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1021/acs.est.9b01131
- The paper
- Oberoi, A. S., Jia, Y., Zhang, H., Khanal, S. K., & Lu, H. (2019). Insights into the Fate and Removal of Antibiotics in Engineered Biological Treatment Systems: A Critical Review. Environmental Science & Technology. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.9b01131
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
