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cord-348361-a5j067ce	Verlicchi, Paola	Trends, new insights and perspectives in the treatment of hospital effluents	2020-10-19		.txt	text/plain	1614	71	38	The most recent literature provides new insights into the occurrence of pharmaceuticals and other contaminants of emerging concern, pathogens, viruses, antibiotic resistant bacteria and genes in hospital effluent in various new developing and developed countries. It also provides information on the effective removal of key compounds (mainly antibiotics, analgesics, beta-blockers and chemotherapy drugs) by means of enhanced biological treatments and advanced oxidation processes. A snapshot of the current situation is provided in a recently-conventional contaminants (the so-called macropollutants) and contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) 48 (mainly pharmaceuticals) in hospital effluent, including antibiotic resistance genes and bacteria (among them 49 (18), (19) . More recently, the efficacy of pathogen and virus removal was at the centre of many debates and 50 studies, and efforts were made to evaluate whether (further) measures should be adopted, and if so which, 51 to reduce the risk of environmental contamination and to guarantee a higher level of hygienisation in the 52 hospital effluent treatment (20), (17) .	./cache/cord-348361-a5j067ce.txt	./txt/cord-348361-a5j067ce.txt