Percutaneous reactivity to natural rubber latex proteins persists in health-care workers following avoidance of natural rubber latex

Clinical and Experimental Allergy

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1349-1356

  Smith, A M ^a   Amin, H S ^a   Biagini, R E ^b   Hamilton, R G ^c   Arif, S A M ^d   Yeang, H Y ^d   Bernstein, D I ^a  

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

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS ASTHMA AND ALLERGY CENTER   (United States)

^d RUBBER RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Health care workers; Hev b; Latex; Latex allergy; Natural rubber latex; Skin prick test

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E ANTIBODY; LATEX; RUBBER;

ADULT; AGED; ANAPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; ATOPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; FEMALE; GLOVE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEVEA BRASILIENSIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRICK TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHINITIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROLOGY; SKIN MANIFESTATION; SKIN SENSITIVITY; SKIN TEST; URTICARIA;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEVEA; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; LATEX; LATEX HYPERSENSITIVITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREVALENCE; RUBBER; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN TESTS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34548487547     PISSN: 09547894     EISSN: 13652222     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2222.2007.02787.x     Document Type: Article

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