Discharge of pharmaceuticals into municipal sewers from hospitals and long-term care facilities

Water Quality Research Journal of Canada

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 140-152

  Riaz ul Haq, Muhammad ^a   Metcalfe, Chris ^b   Li, Hongxia ^b   Parker, Wayne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Hospital effluent; Long term care home effluents; Pharmaceutical loads; Venlafaxine metabolites

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENTS; BIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; CIPROFLOXACIN; COMPOSITE SAMPLES; CYTOSTATIC AGENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE; HEALTHCARE FACILITY; HOSPITAL EFFLUENT; LONG TERM CARE; MASS-BALANCE CALCULATIONS; PHARMACEUTICALLY ACTIVE COMPOUNDS; TARGET COMPOUND; TARGET RECEPTOR; VENLAFAXINE; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

HEALTH CARE; HOSPITALS; RISK MANAGEMENT; SEWAGE; SEWERS; TOXICITY;

ANTIBIOTICS;

ANTIBIOTICS; DRUG; EFFLUENT; HOSPITAL SECTOR; MASS BALANCE; METABOLITE; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEWER NETWORK; TOXICITY; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

EID: 84867086358     PISSN: 12013080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wqrjc.2012.015     Document Type: Article

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