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In the last few years, much attention has been drawn to emerging contaminants due to their severe effects on human health and the lack of information about them. Among them, erythromycin has risen as a potential threat in developing antimicrobial resistance. Being capable of detecting this component and its variations in water bodies can lead to the creation of measurement methods capable of degrading them. Of all the emerging contaminants currently analyzed, pentachlorophenol is one of the most hazardous because of its consequences on human health.

Pentachlorophenol

has been used as a herbicide, fungicide, disinfectant, and as an ingredient in antifouling paint. Short-term exposure to large doses of pentachlorophenol can cause harmful effects on the liver, blood, lungs, immune system, and gastrointestinal tract (Cai & Xun, 2002).

Rifampicin

is a potent antibiotic against tuberculosis and other mycobacterial infections, but an extensive usage of it and its derivatives has contributed to bacterial resistance, which neutralizes antibiotic activity. The presence of rifampicin in water bodies represents a persintent thread, because of the hazardous potential it has to aquatic organisms and human health (Cai et al., 2019).