Consumption-based approach for predicting environmental risk in Greece due to the presence of antimicrobials in domestic wastewater

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Volumn 21, Issue 22, 2014, Pages 12941-12950

  Iatrou, Evangelia I ^a   Stasinakis, Athanasios S ^a   Thomaidis, Nikolaos S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Antibiotics; Effects; Occurrence; Pharmaceuticals; Risk assessment; Risk quotient; Sewage

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CEFUROXIME; ERYTHROMYCIN; SEWAGE; WASTE WATER;

ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; DAPHNIA; DRUG UTILIZATION; FISH; GREECE; GREEN ALGA; HUMAN; RISK ASSESSMENT; RIVER; SEWAGE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; WASTE WATER; WATER QUALITY;

AMOXICILLIN; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CEFUROXIME; CHLOROPHYTA; DAPHNIA; DRUG UTILIZATION; ERYTHROMYCIN; FISHES; GREECE; HUMANS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RIVERS; SEWAGE; WASTE WATER; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 84938067711     PISSN: 09441344     EISSN: 16147499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-014-3243-7     Document Type: Article

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