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Special Issue "Persistent and Emerging Organic Contaminants in Natural Environments"

A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Soil and Water".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2023 | Viewed by 1080

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Jasmin Rauseo

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National Research Council - Institute of Polar Sciences (CNR-ISP), Rome, Italy
Interests: emerging contaminants; antibiotics; ARGs; microbial ecology; ecotoxicity; biodegradation
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Dr. Francesca Spataro

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National Research Council - Institute of Polar Sciences (CNR-ISP), Rome, Italy
Interests: pharmaceutical; personal care products; abiotic compartments; bioaccumulation; development of analytical methods
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Dr. Luisa Patrolecco

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National Research Council - Institute of Polar Sciences (CNR-ISP), Rome, Italy
Interests: POPs; emerging contaminants; analytical chemistry; persistence of contaminants; polar ecosystems
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue aims to investigate and understand the sources, fate, transport, and effects of persistent and emerging organic contaminants on natural ecosystems. These contaminants are spread in all environmental compartments at middle and high latitudes due to their worldwide production and consumption related to anthropogenic activities. Most of these organic micropollutants cause adverse effects on organisms at different levels of the trophic web. In this scenario, the investigation of the potential effects and toxicity associated with their occurrence in abiotic and biotic natural compartments can not be negligible. This Special Issue will update the state-of-the-art and partially fill the knowledge gap regarding these contaminants.

Dr. Jasmin Rauseo
Dr. Francesca Spataro
Dr. Luisa Patrolecco
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Keywords

  • emerging contaminants
  • POPs
  • source of contamination
  • fate of contaminants
  • short and long-range transport
  • ecotoxicity
  • environmental compartments

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Batch Studies on the Biodegradation Potential of Paracetamol, Fluoxetine and 17α-Ethinylestradiol by the Micrococcus yunnanensis Strain TJPT4 Recovered from Marine Organisms
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Tânia Palma
,
Julia Valentine
,
Vera Gomes
,
Maria Faleiro
and
Maria Costa
Water 2022, 14(21), 3365; https://doi.org/10.3390/w14213365 - 23 Oct 2022
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The emerging pollutants paracetamol, fluoxetine and ethinylestradiol are inefficiently removed by conventional wastewater treatments, entering in aquatic environments in which they are hazardous. Aiming for the obtention of bacteria with the capacity for environmental bioremediation, eight bacteria were isolated from two consortia recovered [...] Read more.
The emerging pollutants paracetamol, fluoxetine and ethinylestradiol are inefficiently removed by conventional wastewater treatments, entering in aquatic environments in which they are hazardous. Aiming for the obtention of bacteria with the capacity for environmental bioremediation, eight bacteria were isolated from two consortia recovered from Hymedesmia versicolor and Filograna implexa marine organisms which exhibited a high-paracetamol-removal capacity. The isolates that displayed the ability to grow in the presence of 100 mg/L paracetamol as the sole carbon source were assigned to Paenibacillus, Micrococcus and Microbacterium genera. The isolate assigned to the Micrococcus yunnanensis strain TJPT4 presented the best performance, degrading 93 ± 4% of 15 mg/L paracetamol as the sole carbon source after 360 h, and was also apparently able to degrade the produced metabolites. This strain was able to remove 82.1 ± 0.9% of 16 mg/L fluoxetine after 504 h, mainly by adsorption, but apparently a biodegradation contribution also occurred. This strain was able to remove 66.6 ± 0.2% of 13 mg/L 17α-ethinylestradiol after 360 h. As far as is known, Micrococcus yunnanensis is for the first time recovered/identified in Filograna implexa, presenting a high drug removal efficiency, thereby becoming a great candidate for treatment processes (e.g., bioaugmentation), especially in the presence of saline intrusions. Full article
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