Department of Chemical Engineering, Higher Technical School of Industrial Engineering, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Edificio Infante Don Juan Manuel, Campus Universitario s/n, 02071 Albacete, Spain.
Department of Chemical Engineering, Higher Technical School of Industrial Engineering, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Edificio Infante Don Juan Manuel, Campus Universitario s/n, 02071 Albacete, Spain.
Sci Total Environ. 2021 Nov 25;797:149150. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.149150. Epub 2021 Jul 19.
The occurrence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria (ARB) in water bodies poses a sanitary and environmental risk. These ARB and other mobile genetic elements can be easily spread from hospital facilities, the point in which, for sure, they are more concentrated. For this reason, novel clean and efficient technologies are being developed for allowing to remove these ARB and other mobile genetic elements before their uncontrolled spread. In this paper, a review on the recent knowledge about the state of the art of the main disinfection technologies to control the antibiotic resistance spread from natural water, wastewater, and hospital wastewater (including urine matrices) is reported. These technologies involve not only conventional processes, but also the recent advances on advanced oxidation processes (AOPs), including electrochemical advanced oxidation processes (EAOPs). This review summarizes the state of the art on the applicability of these technologies and also focuses on the description of the disinfection mechanisms by each technology, highlighting the promising impact of EAOPs on the remediation of this important environmental and health problem.
水体中抗生素耐药菌（ARB）的出现对卫生和环境构成了风险。这些 ARB 和其他移动遗传元件很容易从医院设施中传播，这些设施肯定是它们更集中的地方。出于这个原因，正在开发新型清洁高效的技术，以便在这些 ARB 和其他移动遗传元件不受控制地传播之前将其去除。本文综述了关于主要消毒技术的最新知识，这些技术用于控制来自天然水、废水和医院废水（包括尿液基质）的抗生素耐药性传播。这些技术不仅涉及常规工艺，还涉及先进氧化工艺（AOPs）的最新进展，包括电化学高级氧化工艺（EAOPs）。本综述总结了这些技术的适用性现状，还重点介绍了每种技术的消毒机制描述，突出了 EAOPs 在解决这一重要环境和健康问题方面的有前途的影响。
