Prevalence of fruite (kiwi) allergy in health worker with latex hypersensitivity
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Prevalence of fruite (kiwi) allergy in health worker with latex hypersensitivity
Allrgic reaction to natural rubber latex have increased during past 10 years especially among health worker and patients with high exposure to latex allergen. Latex allergy is associsted with clinical or serological cross reactivity to plant derived food allergcn especially tropical fruit for example avocado bannana chestnut kiwi papaya potato and peaches. In this study on health worker among 5...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical and Translational Allergy
سال: 2011
ISSN: 2045-7022
DOI: 10.1186/2045-7022-1-s1-p33