Ecological Consequences of Antibiotics Pollution in Sub-Saharan Africa: Understanding Sources, Pathways, and Potential Implications

Emerging contaminants, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 100475 - 100475

Published: Jan. 1, 2025

Language: Английский

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Advanced materials for photocatalytic removal of antibiotics from wastewater

Journal of Alloys and Compounds, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 177926 - 177926

Published: Dec. 1, 2024

Language: Английский

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Development of CdS/TNTA nanocomposite to improve performance of simultaneous electrocoagulation-photocatalysis process for hydrogen production and ciprofloxacin elimination

Materials Science for Energy Technologies, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Jan. 1, 2025

Language: Английский

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Ultrathin g-C3N5 Nanosheets: A Sustainable Metal-Free Photocatalyst for Efficient Ciprofloxacin Degradation

Vacuum, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 114256 - 114256

Published: March 1, 2025

Language: Английский

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Climate Change Unveils Hidden Microbial Dangers

Environmental Science and Ecotechnology, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 24, P. 100544 - 100544

Published: Feb. 27, 2025

Language: Английский

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Green Synthesized Iron Oxide Nanoparticles from Rice Husk for Ciprofloxacin and Ibuprofen Adsorption

Deleted Journal, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 18(1), P. 24 - 53

Published: March 21, 2025

Pharmaceutical contamination of water, particularly by ciprofloxacin and ibuprofen, poses serious environmental health risks. This study investigates the use rice husk-derived iron oxide nanoparticles (Fe₃O₄ NPs) for their removal, utilizing a green synthesis approach that repurposes husk, an abundant agricultural byproduct, to produce cost-effective eco-friendly adsorbents. Comprehensive characterization using techniques such as FTIR, UV-Vis, DLS, SEM, EDS, XRD, BET confirmed successful desirable properties nanoparticles. Batch adsorption experiments revealed high removal efficiencies, with optimal conditions determined adsorbent dose, shaking time, initial concentration, pH, temperature. Maximum efficiencies were 98.92% 96.60% ibuprofen under optimized conditions: pH 7, times 15 25 minutes, dose 100 mg, concentrations 10 mg/L 4 mg/L, temperatures 320K 300K, respectively. Thermodynamic analysis showed was spontaneous (negative ΔG), exothermic, became more favorable at higher temperatures, whereas non-spontaneous, endothermic, decreased Kinetic studies indicated followed pseudo-second-order kinetics, equilibrium data best fitting Langmuir model Freundlich ibuprofen. capacities 4.87 mg/g 12.49 Reusability tests slight decline in efficiency over four cycles (4.30% ciprofloxacin, 25.83% ibuprofen), demonstrating nanoparticles' potential sustainable solution pharmaceutical wastewater treatment.

Language: Английский

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Editorial for the Special Issue “Microbial Diversity and Microbial Resistance”

Biology, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 14(4), P. 415 - 415

Published: April 13, 2025

In the beginning, it was diversity—or so evolutionary biology suggest when interpreting how and why antibiotic production began on Earth [...]

Language: Английский

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Geospatial mapping and cluster analysis of antibiotic-resistant Escherichia coli in drinking water of semi-arid areas

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 197(5)

Published: April 24, 2025

Language: Английский

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Enhanced photocatalytic degradation of pharmaceuticals using alginate-based BiOBr/Biochar composite beads

Journal of Water Process Engineering, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 74, P. 107826 - 107826

Published: April 29, 2025

Language: Английский

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Antibiotic susceptibility patterns of heavy metal-tolerant Gram-negative bacteria isolated from a major dumpsite in Ibadan, Nigeria

One Health Bulletin, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: April 29, 2025

Objective: To determine the antibiotic susceptibility patterns of heavy metal-tolerant Gram-negative bacteria isolated from a major dumpsite in Ibadan, Nigeria. Methods: were using MacConkey and eosin methylene blue agar presumptive identification to species level was done conventional methods. The isolates screened for their tolerance metals. Antimicrobial tested by Kirby-Bauer disc diffusion method with following antibiotics: tetracycline (10 μg), cotrimoxazole (25 gentamicin cefuroxime (30 chloramphenicol ceftriaxone cefotaxime ciprofloxacin (5 amikacin ceftazidime meropenem μg). zones growth inhibition interpreted based on Clinical Laboratory Scientific Institute. Identification most 16S rRNA. Results: A total 79 isolated, 31 which tolerated minimum three metals (Pb at 10 350 μg/ mL; Cu 750 μg/mL; Cr μg/mL wet season Pb 2 450 300 dry season). All showed varying degrees multiple resistance indexes. highest (100%) least (51.6%). identified as Aeromonas hydrophila Pseudomonas aeruginosa . Conclusions: This study revealed that waste contains significant amounts antibiotic-resistant may pose serious public health risks if they enter food chain. highlighted untreated soils vegetable farming due pathogen metal transfer, it is unsuitable agricultural use.

Language: Английский

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