Recent increase in allergic reactions to methylchloroisothiazolinone/ methylisothiazolinone: Is methylisothiazolinone the culprit?

Contact Dermatitis

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 334-341

  Geier, Johannes ^a   Lessmann, Holger ^a   Schnuch, Axel ^a   Uter, Wolfgang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

biocides; CAS 26172 55 4; CAS 2682 20 4; CAS 55965 84 9; contact allergy; cosmetics; epidemiology; methylchloroisothiazolinone; methylisothiazolinone; occupational; preservatives

Indexed keywords

2 METHYL 4 ISOTHIAZOLIN 3 ONE; 5 CHLORO 2 METHYL 4 ISOTHIAZOLIN 3 ONE; COSMETIC; PRESERVATIVE;

ADULT; ALLERGIC REACTION; ARTICLE; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; CONTACT ALLERGY; CROSS REACTION; DERMATITIS; FACE DERMATITIS; FEMALE; HAND DERMATITIS; HUMAN; LEG DERMATITIS; MALE; PATCH TEST; RISK ASSESSMENT;

COSMETICS; DERMATITIS, ALLERGIC CONTACT; DISINFECTANTS; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; PATCH TESTS; PRESERVATIVES, PHARMACEUTICAL; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THIAZOLES;

EID: 84869501493     PISSN: 01051873     EISSN: 16000536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0536.2012.02157.x     Document Type: Article

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