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Monitoring of gas station attendants exposure to benzene, toluene, xylene (BTX) using three-color chromosome painting

BACKGROUND: Chronic exposure of BTX (benzene, toluene, xylene) may lead to progressive degeneration of bone marrow, aplastic anemia and/or leukemia. In Brazil there is no self-service fuel in gas stations and attendants fill the fuel themselves. Due to this they are chronically exposed to high conce...

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Autores principales: Santiago, Fábio, Alves, Gilda, Otero, Ubirani Barros, Tabalipa, Marianne Medeiros, Scherrer, Luciano Rios, Kosyakova, Nadezda, Ornellas, Maria Helena, Liehr, Thomas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3974043/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24576355
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1755-8166-7-15