Occupational allergy in greenhouse workers: Sensitization to Tetranychus urticae

Clinical and Experimental Allergy

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 640-645

  Delgado, J ^a,d   Orta, J C ^a   Navarro, A M ^a   Conde, J ^b   Martinez A ^c   Martinez J ^c   Palacios, R ^c  

^a Hospital 'El Tomillar'   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN MACARENA   (Spain)

^c IFIDESA ARISTEGUI   (Spain)

^d c/ Virgen de Luján ^*  (Spain)

Author keywords

Allergens; Crossreactivity; Greenhouse workers; Occupational allergy; Tetranychus urticae

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN;

ADULT; ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MITE; OCCUPATIONAL ALLERGY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PLANT; PRICK TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URTICARIA;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, DERMATOPHAGOIDES; ASTHMA; BRONCHIAL HYPERREACTIVITY; CROSS REACTIONS; GLYCOPROTEINS; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; MITES; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; RHINITIS; SKIN TESTS;

EID: 0030793666     PISSN: 09547894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2222.1997.tb01191.x     Document Type: Article

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