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Sulfonamide Antibiotics in Natural and Treated Waters: Environmental and Human Health Risks

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Part of the book series: The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry ((HEC,volume 20))

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Concern regarding the environmental presence of sulfonamides and other species of antibiotics has focused mainly on the potential spread of antimicrobial resistance. However, their biological activity and high resistance to biodegradation may lead to long residence times in both water and soil matrices. Treated waters represent one of the main entrance pathways of these antimicrobials into the environment, and their potential impact in the aquatic ecosystems should be fully understood and investigated. Long-term ecological risks and unpredicted effects can result from unintentional exposure of different organisms and even human health could be negatively affected. This chapter aims to review the current knowlegde regarding sulfonamides ecotoxicity and to highlight the need for further data on the fate and ecotoxicity fo this family of antibiotics.

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This work has been funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation through the projects CEMAGUA (CGL2007-64551/HID) and SCARCE (Consolider Ingenio 2010 CSD2009-00065). MJ García acknowledges AGAUR (Generalitat de Catalunya, Spain) for economic support through an FI predoctoral grant.

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Galán, M.J.G., Díaz-Cruz, M.S., Barceló, D. (2012). Sulfonamide Antibiotics in Natural and Treated Waters: Environmental and Human Health Risks. In: Barceló, D. (eds) Emerging Organic Contaminants and Human Health. The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry(), vol 20. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/698_2011_129

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