Decreasing incidence of occupational contact urticaria caused by natural rubber latex allergy in German health care workers

Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 347-351

  Allmers, Henning ^a   Schmengler, Jörg ^b   John, Swen Malte ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

^b Dept Dermatol Environ Med H ^*

Author keywords

Berufsgenossenschaft f r Gesundheitsdienst und Wohlfahrtspflege; BGW; Contact urticaria; HCW; Health care worker; latex allergens; Natural rubber latex; natural rubber latex allergy; NRL; powder free latex gloves; primary prevention

Indexed keywords

LATEX; RUBBER;

ARTICLE; CONTACT URTICARIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; GERMANY; GLOVE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INSTRUMENT STERILIZATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; OCCUPATIONAL ALLERGY; OCCUPATIONAL CONTACT URTICARIA; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; OCCUPATIONAL SKIN DISEASE; POWDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

GERMANY; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LATEX HYPERSENSITIVITY; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; TIME FACTORS; URTICARIA;

EID: 4344610307     PISSN: 00916749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2004.05.054     Document Type: Article

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