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Antimony Toxicity
Antimony toxicity occurs either due to occupational exposure or during therapy. Occupational exposure may cause respiratory irritation, pneumoconiosis, antimony spots on the skin and gastrointestinal symptoms. In addition antimony trioxide is possibly carcinogenic to humans. Improvements in working conditions have remarkably decreased the incidence of antimony toxicity in the workplace. As a th...
متن کاملPseudo-outbreak of antimony toxicity in firefighters - Florida, 2009.
Antimony oxides, in combination with halogens, have been used as flame retardants in textiles since the 1960s. Uniforms made from fabric containing antimony are common among the estimated 1.1 million firefighters in the United States. In October 2008, CDC received a report from the fire chief of a fire department in Florida (fire department A) regarding an outbreak of antimony toxicity among 30...
متن کاملDisintegration of antimony-124.
The radiations from 60-day Sb lN have been studied by several investigators. H ales and Jordan [2] used a 1800 spectrometer to study the beta spectrum of Sb124. Tbey report the presence of two components with maximum cnergies at 0.74 ± O.03 and 2.45 ± 0.07 million electron volts (NIev) . ~1iller and Omtiss [3], u ing a thin magnetic len spectrometer , also ob erved a complex beta specLrum, but ...
متن کامل34 Antimony-resistant.pmd
1Institute of Endemic Diseases, University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan. ABSTRACT A longitudinal study was done in a leishmaniasis-endemic region in eastern Sudan during the period November 2001–February 2003 to determine the incidence of failure of sodium stibogluconate treatment. We studied 820 confirmed visceral leishmaniasis patients. All were treated with sodium stibogluconate, 20 mg/kg bo...
متن کاملPoisoning by Antimony
then again there is the Bravo case, and those of Cook, llcMullan and Winslow, and lastly, the more'recent cases of Palmer and Klosowski. Poisoning by salts of antimony has occasionally been recorded in India, but it is usually spoken of as a rare occurrence in this country Is this really the fact, and lias arsenic such an absolute monopoly for criminal purposes as is generally believed ? Althou...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1660-4601
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph7124267