No poinsettia this Christmas

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 99, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 772-773

  Bala, Tripura Mantha ^a,b   Panda, Mukta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UTCOM CU   (United States)

Author keywords

Latex allergen proteins; Latex allergy; Poinsettia plant

Indexed keywords

ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; LATEX;

ADULT; ALLERGY; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; RASH; SYNCOPE;

ALLERGENS; CROSS REACTIONS; DERMATITIS, ALLERGIC CONTACT; EUPHORBIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LATEX HYPERSENSITIVITY; MIDDLE AGED; PLANT PROTEINS;

EID: 33745932935     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.smj.0000217495.52393.11     Document Type: Article

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