Latex allergy in health care workers: Frequency, exposure quantification, efficacy of criteria used for job fitness assessment;Allergia a latice nei lavoratori della sanità: Frequenza, quantificazione dell'esposizione, efficacia di criteri per la formulazione del giudizio di idoneità

Medicina del Lavoro

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 62-71

  Crippa, M ^a   Gelmi, M ^a   Sala, E ^a   Zefferino, R ^b   Baccolo, T P ^c   Alessio, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FOGGIA   (Italy)

^c ISPESL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Job fitness assessment; Latex allergy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALLERGY; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FITNESS; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; JOB PERFORMANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PREVALENCE; PROTEIN CONTENT; RADIOALLERGOSORBENT TEST; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL GLOVE; URTICARIA; BLOOD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; INTRACUTANEOUS TEST; ITALY; POWDER; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESPIRATORY TRACT ALLERGY; SKIN ALLERGY;

ALLERGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; NITRILE; VINYL DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; ALLERGENS; DERMATITIS, ALLERGIC CONTACT; FEMALE; GLOVES, PROTECTIVE; GLOVES, SURGICAL; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INTRADERMAL TESTS; ITALY; LATEX HYPERSENSITIVITY; MALE; NITRILES; POWDERS; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RADIOALLERGOSORBENT TEST; RESPIRATORY HYPERSENSITIVITY; VINYL COMPOUNDS;

EID: 3042842855     PISSN: 00257818     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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