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. 2003 Sep;88(5):F436–F437. doi: 10.1136/fn.88.5.F436

Congenital leukaemia after heavy abuse of permethrin during pregnancy

A Borkhardt, M Wilda, U Fuchs, L Gortner, I Reiss
PMCID: PMC1721623  PMID: 12937054

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Figure 1

(A) The patient at 2 hours of age. Note the leukaemic skin infiltration ("blueberry spots"). (B) Southern blot showing an MLL rearrangement in the BV173 cell line incubated with 50 µM permethrin for six hours. VP16 induced MLL cleavage was used as a control.


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