Contact allergy to methyldibromoglutaronitrile and certain other preservatives

Contact Dermatitis

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 151-

  Okkerse, A ^a   Geursen Reitsma, A M ^a   Van Joost, Th ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Allergic contact dermatitis; Cosmetics; Dibromodicyanobutane; Euxyl K 400; Germall 115; Imidazolidinyl urea; Methyldibromoglutaronitrile; Paints; Patch testing technique; Preservatives

Indexed keywords

2 BROMO 2 BROMOMETHYLGLUTARONITRILE; COSMETIC; EUXYL K 400; NITRILE; PAINT; PRESERVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTACT ALLERGY; CONTACT DERMATITIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATCH TEST; SKIN ALLERGY;

EID: 0030070187     PISSN: 01051873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0536.1996.tb02158.x     Document Type: Article

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