Epoxidation of aldrin to exo-dieldrin by soil bacteria
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A Blood Test Diagnostic of Exposure to Aldrin and Dieldrin.
The findings of a diagnostic blood test for the presence of hexachloro-epoxy-octahydrodimethanonaphthalene (H.E.O.D.) performed on whole blood obtained from operatives of plants manufacturing two chlorinated hydrocarbon insecticides, aldrin and dieldrin, and formulating products containing them and from dogs experimentally exposed to dieldrin have been reported. When clinical signs of poisoning...
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Twenty microbial cultures which had been shown to degrade dieldrin were tested to determine their ability to degrade endrin, aldrin, DDT, gamma isomers of benzenehexachloride (gamma-BHC), and Baygon. All isolates were able to degrade DDT and endrin, whereas 13 degraded aldrin. However, none of them was able to degrade Baygon or gamma-BHC.
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Aldrin (C12H8Cl6) and dieldrin (C12H8Cl6O) are two organochlorine insecticides that were used for agricultural and public health purposes from the early 1950s until 1989, when their manufacture in the United States was discontinued. Aldrin and dieldrin were popular pesticides for corn and cotton crops, and were used as a prophylactic and for treatment of timber against termite infestation. Cons...
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lead taken out of the plant by the workers on their clothes. A number of recommendations are made: these include emphasizing once more that top management carry the responsibility for the protection of the health of workers; the importance of industrial hygiene and monitoring of the atmosphere, and the desirability of close co-operation of those concerned with the works medical officer; the edu...
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Aldrin and its epoxide dieldrin are largely used in countries with hot climates, both as agricultural insecticides and for the control of tsetse fly, the vector of human and animal trypanosomiasis, and other insects which are sources of various human and animal diseases. Whereas in industrial countries the use of aldrin and dieldrin has been restricted or banned within the last decade, their us...
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عنوان ژورنال: Applied and Environmental Microbiology
سال: 1977
ISSN: 0099-2240,1098-5336
DOI: 10.1128/aem.34.1.7-13.1977