Comparative evaluation of Type 1 latex hypersensitivity in patients with chronic urticaria, rubber factory workers and healthy control subjects

Contact Dermatitis

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 266-271

  Piskin, Gamze ^a,c   Akyol, Aynur ^a   Uzar, Hatice ^a   Tulek, Necla ^b   Boyvat, Ayse ^a   Gurgey, Erbak ^a  

^a ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ANKARA NUMUNE HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^c NONE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chronic urticaria; Fruit; Natural rubber latex; Occupational; Rubber manufacture; Type 1 hypersensitivity

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; LATEX; PLANT EXTRACT; RUBBER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC URTICARIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTACT DERMATITIS; CONTACT URTICARIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACTORY WORKER; FEMALE; FOOD ALLERGY; FRUIT; HUMAN; IMMEDIATE TYPE HYPERSENSITIVITY; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATCH TEST; PRICK TEST; RISK FACTOR; RUBBER INDUSTRY; SKIN ALLERGY;

ADULT; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHRONIC DISEASE; DERMATITIS, OCCUPATIONAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INTRADERMAL TESTS; LATEX HYPERSENSITIVITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATCH TESTS; PREVALENCE; TURKEY; URTICARIA;

EID: 0041659351     PISSN: 01051873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0536.2003.00112.x     Document Type: Article

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