The drug is believed to have been contaminated with a fungus called Exserohilum, which causes a type of meningitis that is severe but not contagious.
But the bag had not been contaminated with anthrax.
Floodwaters have been contaminated with E. coli.
In 1985, use of natural GH was halted in the United States and several other countries because of the possibility that the hormone was contaminated with a type of pathogenic agent known as a prion, which causes a fatal condition called Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
Inhibition of the BGlu1 β-glucosidase activity within this preparation by cyclophellitol confirmed that the E386G glycosynthase preparation was contaminated with wild type BGlu1.
In Hospital B, a sofa was identified as being contaminated with spa type 2/t002 on three different visits.
Although six patients were identified with MRSA spa type 437/t003, none of these patients were present in the surgical ward when a chair located in an unexposed room was found to be contaminated with spa type 437/t003.
The results of mutagenicity, genotoxicity, physicochemical and heavy metal analysis suggest that the water present in the Harike wetland is contaminated with different types of organic pollutants and toxic contaminants that may be causing the mutations and DNA damage.
Recently, in Saudi Arabia, wastewater was found to be contaminated with different types of heavy metals.
These industries are releasing a huge quantity of effluent which is contaminated with different types of metals and dyes and is responsible for polluting our water bodies [1, 2].
