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Overview

Ettore Zuccato is affiliated with the Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research in Italy. Their research spans the intersection of medicine and environmental science, with specific attention to infectious diseases, pollution, toxicology, clinical psychology, and areas related to health, toxicology, and mutagenesis.

Their work addresses several main topics including forensic toxicology and drug analysis, pharmaceutical and antibiotic environmental impacts, psychedelics and drug studies, SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing, COVID-19 research, biosensors and analytical detection, and antibiotics pharmacokinetics and efficacy.

Frequent coauthors in Ettore Zuccato's research include Sara Castiglioni, Noelia Salgueiro-González, Félix Hernández, Emma Gracia-Lor, and Lubertus Bijlsma. Collaboration with these researchers reflects recurring contributions across multiple studies.

Key publication venues for their work are:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Water Research
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Environmental Sciences Europe
  • Environment International

Representative recent papers authored or coauthored by Ettore Zuccato include:

  • Monitoring psychoactive substance use at six European festivals through wastewater and pooled urine analysis (2020) - The Science of The Total Environment
  • One planet: one health. A call to support the initiative on a global science-policy body on chemicals and waste (2022) - Environmental Sciences Europe
  • New psychoactive substances in several European populations assessed by wastewater-based epidemiology (2021) - Water Research
  • The rapid spread of SARS-COV-2 Omicron variant in Italy reflected early through wastewater surveillance (2022) - The Science of The Total Environment
  • Changes in drug use in European cities during early COVID-19 lockdowns - A snapshot from wastewater analysis (2021) - Environment International

Best Publications

  • Removal of Pharmaceuticals in Sewage Treatment Plants in Italy

    Sara Castiglioni;Renzo Bagnati;Roberto Fanelli;Francesco Pomati

  • Cocaine in surface waters: a new evidence-based tool to monitor community drug abuse

    Ettore Zuccato;Chiara Chiabrando;Sara Castiglioni;Sara Castiglioni;Davide Calamari

  • Presence of therapeutic drugs in the environment

    Ettore Zuccato;Davide Calamari;Marco Natangelo;Roberto Fanelli

  • Strategic Survey of Therapeutic Drugs in the Rivers Po and Lambro in Northern Italy

    Davide Calamari;Ettore Zuccato;Sara Castiglioni;Renzo Bagnati

  • Estimating community drug abuse by wastewater analysis.

    Ettore Zuccato;Chiara Chiabrando;Sara Castiglioni;Renzo Bagnati

  • Evaluation of uncertainties associated with the determination of community drug use through the measurement of sewage drug biomarkers.

    Sara Castiglioni;Lubertus Bijlsma;Adrian Covaci;Erik Emke

  • Source, occurrence and fate of antibiotics in the Italian aquatic environment

    Ettore Zuccato;Sara Castiglioni;Renzo Bagnati;Manuela Melis

  • Effects of a complex mixture of therapeutic drugs at environmental levels on human embryonic cells.

    Francesco Pomati;Sara Castiglioni;Ettore Zuccato;Roberto Fanelli

  • Illicit drugs, a novel group of environmental contaminants.

    Ettore Zuccato;Sara Castiglioni;Renzo Bagnati;Chiara Chiabrando

  • A multiresidue analytical method using solid-phase extraction and high-pressure liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry to measure pharmaceuticals of different therapeutic classes in urban wastewaters.

    Sara Castiglioni;Renzo Bagnati;Davide Calamari;Roberto Fanelli

  • Identification of the pharmaceuticals for human use contaminating the Italian aquatic environment

    Ettore Zuccato;Sara Castiglioni;Sara Castiglioni;Roberto Fanelli

  • Identification and Measurement of Illicit Drugs and Their Metabolites in Urban Wastewater by Liquid Chromatography−Tandem Mass Spectrometry

    Sara Castiglioni;Ettore Zuccato;Elisabetta Crisci;Chiara Chiabrando

  • Illicit drug consumption estimations derived from wastewater analysis: a critical review.

    Alexander L N van Nuijs;Sara Castiglioni;Isabela Tarcomnicu;Cristina Postigo

  • Antibiotics in the Environment: Occurrence in Italian STPs, Fate, and Preliminary Assessment on Algal Toxicity of Amoxicillin

    Roberto Andreozzi;Vincenzo Caprio;Claudia Ciniglia;Marcella de Champdoré

  • Pharmaceuticals in the environment in Italy: Causes, occurrence, effects and control

    Ettore Zuccato;Sara Castiglioni;Roberto Fanelli;Giuseppe Reitano

  • Refining correction factors for back-calculation of illicit drug use

    Emma Gracia-Lor;Ettore Zuccato;Sara Castiglioni

  • Measuring biomarkers in wastewater as a new source of epidemiological information: Current state and future perspectives

    Emma Gracia-Lor;Emma Gracia-Lor;Sara Castiglioni;Richard Bade;Frederic Been

  • Effects and interactions in an environmentally relevant mixture of pharmaceuticals.

    Francesco Pomati;Chiara Orlandi;Moira Clerici;Fabio Luciani

  • Spatio‐temporal assessment of illicit drug use at large scale: evidence from 7 years of international wastewater monitoring

    Iria González-Mariño;Iria González-Mariño;Jose Antonio Baz-Lomba;Nikiforos A. Alygizakis;Maria Jesús Andrés-Costa

  • Wastewater analysis to monitor use of caffeine and nicotine and evaluation of their metabolites as biomarkers for population size assessment.

    Ivan Senta;Emma Gracia-Lor;Andrea Borsotti;Ettore Zuccato

Frequent Co-Authors

Sara Castiglioni
Sara Castiglioni Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research
Roberto Fanelli
Roberto Fanelli Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research
Félix Hernández
Félix Hernández Jaume I University
Lubertus Bijlsma
Lubertus Bijlsma Jaume I University
Kevin V. Thomas
Kevin V. Thomas University of Queensland
Barbara Kasprzyk-Hordern
Barbara Kasprzyk-Hordern University of Bath
Pim de Voogt
Pim de Voogt University of Amsterdam
Alexander L.N. van Nuijs
Alexander L.N. van Nuijs University of Antwerp
Adrian Covaci
Adrian Covaci University of Antwerp
Benedek G. Plósz
Benedek G. Plósz University of Bath

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