Air borne microbes in a confectionery factory.

Urinary and fecal elimination of nickel in relation to air-borne nickel in a battery factory.

Nickel in urine and in air from the breathing zone of 18 male workers in a battery factory was determined weekly during 11 consecutive weeks. The study started immediately following three weeks of Christmas vacation. The nickel levels in air varied but did not increase with time. The average urinary excretion of nickel showed an increase during the first weeks, after which a steady state seemed...

Air-Borne Infection

Air-Borne Fungi in New Haven, Connecticut *

The number and variety of the common fungi in the air vary as the result of a great many factors. Their tendency to contaminate cultures (particularly of skin scrapings) as well as their allergenic properties confer upon them a certain degree of importance.2' 3 The present studies were designed to familiarize us with the common fungi that might contaminate our cultures of skin scrapings from pa...

Quantitative Air-borne Tuberculosis in the Rabbit

1. Pulmonary tuberculosis in unselected rabbits, induced by primary quantitative air-borne infection with human type tubercle bacilli, may retrogress or progress. Some animals whose disease was in a stationary condition might have fallen into one of the above groups had the experiments been prolonged. 2. Within the limits of the observations natural resistance or susceptibility appears to be th...

Confectionery consumption and violence.

Moore et al 1 found a 'novel and robust' relationship between confectionery consumption during childhood and conviction for violence in adulthood. However, there are serious methodological concerns, which make the overall findings questionable. As the authors recognise, the number of violent people in their cohort is very low. The lack of descriptive information in the paper, contrary to recomm...