title: Urine mutagenicity of petroleum plant workers.
abstract: The mutagenicity of urinary extracts from workers employed in a petroleum plant was analyzed by means of the plate test using S. typhimurium strains TA98 and TA100. Mean urinary mutagenic activities in TA98 were 2-14 times higher in the petroleum plant workers than in the control group. In TA100 these differences were even bigger, the mutagenicity in petroleum plant workers' urine being 3-42 times higher than in the control group. These results suggest that the environmental exposure of people to mutagenic substances is markedly increased in a petrochemical plant.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, Medical Academy, Warsaw, Poland.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Sadurska
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Zieliński
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Skalska-Hilgier
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Tudek
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Szczypka
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Szymczyk
mesh_terms: D004781:Environmental Exposure; D006801:Humans; D009152:Mutagenicity Tests; D009153:Mutagens / Q000652:urine*; D010578:Petroleum / Q000633:toxicity*; D012486:Salmonella typhimurium / Q000235:genetics
chemical_list: D009153:Mutagens; D010578:Petroleum