Allergy to proteases in medical laboratory technicians: A new occupational disease?

Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Volumn 104, Issue 3 II, 1999, Pages 700-701

  Kempf, Werner ^a   Oman, Hans ^b   Wüthrich, Brunello ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b MIAB   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; BACTERIAL ENZYME; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E ANTIBODY; PRONASE; PROTEINASE;

ADULT; ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABORATORY PERSONNEL; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; OCCUPATIONAL ALLERGY; OCCUPATIONAL ASTHMA; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRICK TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN TEST;

EID: 0032847228     PISSN: 00916749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0091-6749(99)70345-3     Document Type: Article

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