Separate treatment of hospital and urban wastewaters: A real scale comparison of effluents and their effect on microbial communities
Résumé
We compared treatment with activated sludge of hospital and urban wastewaters.•Pharmaceuticals had higher removal efficiency during hospital wastewater treatment.•Treated hospital effluents still contained higher concentrations of pharmaceuticals.•Biofilms developed in the two treated effluents had different community structure.•Biofilms in hospital treated effluents were less developed and had lower diversity.