UK rates of occupational skin disease attributed to rubber accelerators, 1996-2012

Contact Dermatitis

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 305-311

  Warburton, Katharine L ^a   Urwin, Rachel ^a   Carder, Melanie ^b   Turner, Susan ^b   Agius, Raymond ^b,c   Wilkinson, S Mark ^a  

^a CHAPEL ALLERTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

allergic contact dermatitis; contact urticaria; epidemiology; latex; occupational; rubber; rubber accelerators

Indexed keywords

CARBA MIX; DISULFIRAM; FUSED CARBON NITROGEN SULFUR HETEROCYCLE; LATEX; MERCAPTO MIX; MERCAPTOBENZOTHIAZOLE; RUBBER; RUBBER ACCELERATOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BENZOTHIAZOLE DERIVATIVE; CARBAMIX; DIETHYLDITHIOCARBAMIC ACID; GUANIDINE DERIVATIVE; N-ISOPROPYL-N-PHENYL-4-PHENYLENEDIAMINE; PHENYLENEDIAMINE DERIVATIVE; THIOL DERIVATIVE; THIRAM;

ARTICLE; CONTACT URTICARIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OCCUPATIONAL SKIN DISEASE; DERMATITIS, ALLERGIC CONTACT; DERMATITIS, OCCUPATIONAL; INCIDENCE; LATEX HYPERSENSITIVITY; UNITED KINGDOM;

BENZOTHIAZOLES; DERMATITIS, ALLERGIC CONTACT; DERMATITIS, OCCUPATIONAL; DITIOCARB; GREAT BRITAIN; GUANIDINES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LATEX HYPERSENSITIVITY; PHENYLENEDIAMINES; SULFHYDRYL COMPOUNDS; THIRAM;

EID: 84927622057     PISSN: 01051873     EISSN: 16000536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cod.12356     Document Type: Article

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