TABLE 2.

Pharmaceutical compounds (PhCs) removal efficiency by filamentous fungi.

Strain	Pollutant	Removal efficiency %	Time	References
Aspergillus luchuensis	Diclofenac	> 99.9%	10 days	Dalecka et al. (2020b)
Aspergillus niger	diclofenac	78–100	24 h	Kasonga et al. (2022)
Mucor circinelloides	diclofenac	78–100	24 h	Kasonga et al. (2022)
	ibuprofen	98	2 days
Penicillium oxalicum	diclofenac	99	24 h	Olicon-Hernandez et al. (2019)
Rhizopus microspores	carbamazepine	87	10 days	Kasonga et al. (2022)
	diclofenac	78–100	24 h
Rhizopus sp.	carbamazepine	100	9 days	Kasonga et al. (2022)
	diclofenac	100
	ibuprofen	100
Trametes versicolor	45–79 of different PhCs	69	–	Alamo et al. (2021)
	16 of different PhCscarbamazepine	88.6–89.8	14 days	Tormo-Budowski et al. (2021)
	trimethoprim	34–82	48 h	Alharbi et al. (2019)
	sulfamethoxazole	39–95	48 h	Stenholm et al. (2019)
	diclofenac	49–56	48 h
		98–99	4 h - 1 week
Trametes polyzona	diclofenac	78–100	24 h	Kasonga et al. (2022)
Trichoderma longibrachiatum	diclofenac	78–100	24 h	Kasonga et al. (2022)