The effectiveness of sewage treatment processes to remove faecal pathogens and antibiotic residues

Journal of Environmental Science and Health - Part A Toxic/Hazardous Substances and Environmental Engineering

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 289-297

  Hendricks, Rahzia ^a   Pool, Edmund John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

antibiotics; chromogenic assay; coliforms; Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay; Escherichia coli; fluoroquinolone; Pathogens; sulfamethoxazole

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC REMOVAL; ANTIBIOTIC RESIDUES; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENTS; COLIFORMS; E. COLI; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI (E. COLI); FAECAL BACTERIA; FLUOROQUINOLONES; RAW WASTEWATERS; RESEARCH NEEDS; SEWAGE EFFLUENTS; SEWAGE TREATMENT PROCESS; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; TOTAL COLIFORMS; TREATMENT PLANTS; TREATMENT PROCESS; TREATMENT TECHNOLOGIES; WESTERN CAPE , SOUTH AFRICA;

ANTIBIOTICS; ASSAYS; BACTERIA; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; EFFLUENTS; ENZYMES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HEALTH RISKS; MEMBRANE TECHNOLOGY; PATHOGENS; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANTS;

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE;

AFRICA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BIOASSAY; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DETERMINATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECAL COLIFORM; FECES ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MEMBRANE TECHNOLOGY; NONHUMAN; SEWAGE; SEWAGE EFFLUENT; SEWAGE TREATMENT; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT; WASTE COMPONENT REMOVAL; WASTE WATER; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES; FLUOROQUINOLONES; SEWAGE; SOUTH AFRICA; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84856501651     PISSN: 10934529     EISSN: 15324117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10934529.2012.637432     Document Type: Article

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