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Contact urticaria to locusts
Author(s) -
MONK B.E.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
british journal of dermatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.304
H-Index - 179
eISSN - 1365-2133
pISSN - 0007-0963
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2133.1988.tb02575.x
Subject(s) - locust , contact urticaria , dermatology , medicine , occupational exposure , allergy , contact dermatitis , immunology , biology , medical emergency , ecology
SUMMARY We describe a case of allergic contact urticaria provoked by locusts in a laboratory research worker. One of her colleagues also had locust‐induced contact urticaria, and another had asthma provoked by locust exposure. Contact urticaria to locusts is an occupational hazard apparently well known to professional entomologists, but one which has not previously been described in the dermatological literature, to my knowledge.