Hospital workers

Clinics in Dermatology

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 573-578

  Wrangsjö, Karin ^a   Meding, Birgitta ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIPARASITIC AGENT; ETHYLENE OXIDE DERIVATIVE; ETHYLENEDIAMINE; LATEX; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; PROPYLENE OXIDE; ALLERGEN; IRRITANT AGENT;

ALLERGY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTACT DERMATITIS; DELAYED HYPERSENSITIVITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HAND ECZEMA; HAND WASHING; HEALTH HAZARD; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; REVIEW; HAND DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL ECZEMA; SKIN ALLERGY;

ALLERGENS; DERMATITIS, ALLERGIC CONTACT; DERMATITIS, OCCUPATIONAL; HAND DERMATOSES; HUMANS; IRRITANTS; LATEX; PERSONNEL, HOSPITAL;

EID: 0030740321     PISSN: 0738081X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0738-081X(97)00002-3     Document Type: Article

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