Type I allergy to natural rubber latex and type IV allergy to rubber chemicals in health care workers with glove‐related skin symptoms
- 1 March 2002
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Clinical and Experimental Allergy
- Vol. 32 (3) , 441-447
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2222.2002.01308.x
Abstract
Background It has been established that there are type I and type IV allergens in latex gloves. Objective The purpose of the study was to establish the prevalence of rubber glove‐induced skin symptom...Keywords
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