1Department of Chemical Engineering, Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, INDIA
2Department of Chemistry & Environmental Engineering, Swami Keshvanand Institute of Technology, Management & Gramothan, Jaipur
Use of Antiviral drugs has increased during past decade to treat viral diseases. This has resulted in development of resistance of the drug towards the target virus. Antiviral drugs have emerged as a new challenge for medical fraternity and environment in general and researchers in particular. Presence of these drugs has created problems for aquatic organisms and raised questions for their removal from water and wastewater. Antiviral Drugs have attracted attention of general public after the outbreak of the swine influenza virus at the global scale. In the present review paper, occurrence and fate of Antiviral drugs in aquatic bodies and environment have been discussed. Classification of the Antiviral drugs based on the types of disease in which they are used and various detection methods for the analysis of Antiviral drugs have also been reviewed.
Antiviral Drugs, Occurrence, Fate, Environment, Detection Techniques
