Sensitivity to wild vegetation

Publisher Website
Google Scholar
Abstract
Seventy-four patients suspected of having allergic contact dermatitis to wild vegetation were patch tested with ether extracts of 13 plants of the family Compositae and 7 other weeds or trees. Anthemis cotula (dog fennel) and Xanthium strumarium (cocklebur) gave the most frequent positive results, demonstrating a change of frequency in sensitivity compared to the 1950s, when Ambrosia artemisiifolia (ragweed) was recognized as the most frequently sensitizing weed. The reasons for these changes of incidence and clinical patterns are examined.

This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit: