Classification of antibiotics contained in urban wastewater

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of available information about identification of groups of antibiotics in urban wastewater. At the same time, results of research conducted in Tunisia, Spain, the United States, China and other countries were examined. The comparison showed that wastewater contains a specific set of antibiotics of a country, which is aroused by special veterinary medicine and pharmaceutical industry in the country. However, there are common antibiotic types of urban wastewater in all countries, because of their high applicability and effectiveness of treating bacterial infections. The question of learning the composition of urban wastewater in Russia remains unstudied.