What is Inventions

Antimicrobial medicines are taken orally or parenterally. These molecules are primarily eliminated by kidneys. However, several studies indicate that the methods of wastewater treatment are not sufficient to effectively remove these drugs from the environment, such as excreted antibiotics and antifungals in urine. Thus, antimicrobials can pollute the food chain. Mutations of bacteria and/or fungi may be responsible for the emergence of new drug resistances, with irreparable global consequences. The chapter's aim is to present a new and inventive purification device of human urine during treatment with antimicrobials. The regular use of this device by citizens during treatment with antimicrobials may lead to a reduction of more than 30% to 50% of these molecules in urine, with the reduction of antibiotic or antifungal pollution.