Immunological occupational contact urticaria and contact dermatitis from proteins: A review

Contact Dermatitis

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 67-75

  Amaro, Cristina ^a   Goossens, An ^b  

^a HOSPITAL CURRY CABRAL   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Contact dermatitis; Contact urticarial; Delayed; Immediate; Immunological; Occupational; Protein contact dermatitis; Proteins

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; CURCUMIN; DIALLYLDISULFIDE; DISULFIDE; ENZYME; GARLIC EXTRACT; ONION EXTRACT; PROTEIN; PROTEIN HYDROLYSATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTACT DERMATITIS; CONTACT URTICARIA; DELAYED HYPERSENSITIVITY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FOLLOW UP; FRUIT; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; MACROMOLECULE; OCCUPATIONAL ECZEMA; OCCUPATIONAL SKIN DISEASE; PATHOGENESIS; PLANT; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CONTACT DERMATITIS; REVIEW; SKIN PENETRATION; SPICE; VEGETABLE; WOOD;

ALLERGENS; ANIMALS; DERMATITIS, CONTACT; DERMATITIS, OCCUPATIONAL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; PROTEINS; SKIN; SKIN TESTS; URTICARIA;

EID: 38049043827     PISSN: 01051873     EISSN: 16000536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0536.2007.01267.x     Document Type: Review

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