In addition to killing 5 of its 11 victims, the 2001 anthrax attack on the U.S. Postal Service and federal facilities also contaminated a number of buildings.
To assess the extent that exudate collected from the fruit suture vasculature might be contaminated a number of transcripts were assayed by real time RT-qPCR in both exudate and extracts from the surrounding, non-suture, pod tissue.
In the highly contaminated sample, number 10, octabrominated (BDE-197), nonabrominated (BDE-206 and -207) and decabrominated (BDE-209) congeners were found at very high levels compared with the other butter samples.
The number of contaminated seeds was used in order to estimate the seeds contamination index (SCI) according to Doolotkeldieva et al. using the formula (1) [24]: SCI % = number of contaminated seeds total number seeds × 100 (100
The aquifer beneath an abandoned refinery in the Lower Rhine area, Germany, was contaminated with a number of different mineral oil products.
Arsenic is a toxic element that is found in both natural environments such as geothermal springs, and in sites contaminated by a number of industries.
Despite strict regulations, boatyard soils are still heavily contaminated with a number of well-known dangerous metal and organic substances, such as Cu, Zn, Pb, Hg, Cd, TBT, TPhT, PAHs, and PCBs.
In 1979, testing of wells in Woburn, Massachusetts, revealed that the water in two of the wells was contaminated with a number of solvents, including TCE (267 ppb) (Lagakos et al. 1986).
Reindeer eating the lichens became contaminated and huge numbers of the animals, which would have been eaten by humans, were killed.
Although we could therefore not completely exclude that sorted Treg might be contaminated by small numbers of effector T cells, it should be noted that CD25 expression was not upregulated in AAV remission patients and that their CD25/CD127 profiles were similar to that observed in controls.
In addition, water is frequently contaminated with large numbers of resistant bacteria and their resistance genes - both by faecal contamination from people (poor sanitation) and animal manure.
