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RUBBER SENSITIVITY
Author(s) -
Nurse David S.
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
australasian journal of dermatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.67
H-Index - 53
eISSN - 1440-0960
pISSN - 0004-8380
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-0960.1979.tb00121.x
Subject(s) - medicine , contact dermatitis , dermatology , natural rubber , foot (prosody) , sensitivity (control systems) , composite material , allergy , immunology , materials science , linguistics , philosophy , electronic engineering , engineering
S ummary The records of patients attending a contact dermatitis clinic have been examined to find the patterns of localization and chemical sensitivity to rubber. It has been found that rubber sensitivity is one of the common causes of contact dermatitis, and that the chemicals responsible for hand dermatitis differ from those responsible for foot dermatitis.