Thimerosal - Is it really irrelevant?

Contact Dermatitis

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 324-326

  Slodownik, Dan ^a   Ingber, Arieh ^a  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Allergic contact dermatitis; Relevance; Thimerosal

Indexed keywords

THIOMERSAL;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OCCUPATION; PATCH TEST; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SKIN ALLERGY;

EID: 29244438808     PISSN: 01051873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0105-1873.2005.00591.x     Document Type: Article

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