The latex-sensitive health care worker

Clinics in Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 395-406

  Howarth, M V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; LATEX; PROTEIN; RUBBER; STARCH;

ALLERGY; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; GLOVE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE FINANCING; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; MEDICAL CARE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; SAFETY; SENSITIZATION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 0035165053     PISSN: 15260046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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