Presence and toxicity of drugs used to treat SARS-CoV-2 in Llobregat River, Catalonia, Spain.

ABSTRACT: Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a strain of coronavirus that causes COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019), the respiratory illness responsible for the on-going COVID-19 pandemic. In March 2020, it was declared global pandemic, causing millions of deaths. An evident tendency of global pharmaceutical consumption due to COVID-19 pandemic should be seen worldwide, and this increase might suppose an environmental threat. Pharmaceuticals administrated at home or in pharmacies are excreted by faeces and urine after consumption, and wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are not able to remove all pharmaceuticals residues that eventually will end up in the aquatic media (rivers and sea). For this reason, analytical techniques such as liquid chromatography coupled to tand

SUBMITTER: Dominguez-Garcia P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9924204 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature