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Contact allergy to reactive dyes in footwear
Author(s) -
Lecamwasam Kamalini,
Latheef Faheem,
Walker Benjamin,
Wilkinson Mark
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
contact dermatitis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.524
H-Index - 96
eISSN - 1600-0536
pISSN - 0105-1873
DOI - 10.1111/cod.12723
Subject(s) - medicine , chapel , family medicine , dermatology , art history , art
Reactive dyes have been used in the textile industry for the past 60 years; they colour fibres brightly and are highly wetfast. They consist of a direct colourant (an azo, anthraquinone or phthalocyanin derivative group) connected to a reactive group, which is capable of linking through covalent bonds to the amine or sulfhydryl groups of proteins (1). We report a case of a delayed contact hypersensitivity reaction to reactive dyes.