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Toxicity of wastewater from health care facilities assessed by different bioassays

The result's identifiers

  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11120%2F18%3A43917756" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11120/18:43917756 - isvavai.cz</a>

  • Alternative codes found

    RIV/75010330:_____/18:00012518 RIV/61989592:15110/18:73595917

  • Result on the web

  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    Toxicity of wastewater from health care facilities assessed by different bioassays

  • Original language description

    OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to determine toxicity of wastewater from hospitals in the Czech Republic using traditional and alternative toxicological methods. The pilot study comprised weekly dynamics of sewage ecotoxicity of treated wastewater from one hospital in two different seasons. A detailed investigation of wastewater ecotoxicity, genotoxicity and reprotoxicity followed in five different hospitals. METHODS: The seven following bioassays were used in this study: algal growth inhibition test (ISO 8692), Vibrio fischeri test (ISO 11348-2), Daphnia magna acute toxicity test (ISO 6341), Allium cepa assay, Ames test (OECD TG 471), Comet assay and YES/YAS assay. RESULTS: The wastewater ecotoxicity during one week showed no differences in separate working days, however, higher toxicity values were recorded in May compared to November. In the following study, samples from two of the five hospitals were classified as toxic, the others as non toxic. Genotoxicity has not been confirmed in any sample. In several cases, wastewater samples exhibited agonist activity to the estrogen and androgen receptors. CONCLUSION: The study demonstrated different levels of toxicity of treated hospital wastewater. Variable sensitivity of individual bioassays for tested wastewater samples was recognized. A more extensive study including proposal for improvement of hospital wastewater treatment within the Czech Republic can be recommended with the aim to decrease the discharge of toxic chemicals into the local sewage system and the environment.

  • Czech name

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

  • CEP classification

  • OECD FORD branch

    30304 - Public and environmental health

Result continuities

  • Project

    <a href="/en/project/EF16_019%2F000860" target="_blank" >EF16_019/000860: International competitiveness of NIPH in research, development and education in alternative toxicological methods.</a><br>

  • Continuities

    S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Others

  • Publication year

    2018

  • Confidentiality

    S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Data specific for result type

  • Name of the periodical

    Neuroendocrinology Letters

  • ISSN

    0172-780X

  • e-ISSN

  • Volume of the periodical

    39

  • Issue of the periodical within the volume

    6

  • Country of publishing house

    SE - SWEDEN

  • Number of pages

    13

  • Pages from-to

    441-453

  • UT code for WoS article

    000459685500004

  • EID of the result in the Scopus database

    2-s2.0-85062840185