Natural rubber latex (NRL) allergy has become an important occupational health problem in recent years. However, the prevalence of sensitization to NRL among allergic asthmatic patients is unknown. This study was undertaken evaluate the levels specific IgE in sera of 70 adult asthmatic patients (27 male and 43 female) with mild (32 patients) and moderate (38 patients) asthma, whose diagnosis wa...

The most common agents that are responsible for intraoperative anaphylaxis are muscle relaxants. However, latex accounts for a significant number of these reactions, and the incidence of intraoperative anaphylaxis caused by latex is increasing. It is now probably the second most important cause of intraoperative anaphylaxis. Following muscle relaxants and latex are probably antibiotics and anes...

During the last decade, latex IgE-mediated allergy has been recognized as a very important medical problem. At the same time, many studies have dealt with allergic cross-reactions between aeroallergens and foods. Recently, a "latex-fruit syndrome" has been postulated, because there is clear evidence of the existence of a significant clinical association between allergies to latex and certain fr...

The dairy industry suffers massive economic losses due to staphylococcal mastitis in cattle. The Staphaureux latex agglutination test (Oxoid, Basel, Switzerland) was reported to lead to negative results in 54% of bovine Staphylococcus aureus strains, and latex-negative strains are thought to be less virulent than Staphaurex latex-positive strains. However, comparative information on virulence a...

In the previous article in this series I started by giving a description of the files in the ‘base’ LATEX distribution. In part 2, I shall cover the ‘tools’ and ‘graphics’ distributions. These are distributed in the tools and graphics subdirectories of the CTAN directory macros/latex/ packages. Although these files are not part of the minimal base distribution they should normally be included i...

This handy reference describes techniques and tricks needed to illustrate LATEX documents, and answers common user questions about graphics and PostScript fonts. It provides the first full description of the standard LATEX color and graphics packages, and shows how you can combine TEX and PostScript capabilities to produce beautifully illustrated pages. Following the successful format of The LA...

6 LATEX support 94 6.1 Preliminaries : : : : : : : : : : : : 94 6.2 Creating a new LATEX file : : : : : : 97 6.3 LATEX macros : : : : : : : : : : : : 98 6.4 LATEX environments : : : : : : : : 99 6.5 Common commands : : : : : : : : 99 6.6 Math mode : : : : : : : : : : : : : 100 6.7 Dots, commas, and quotation marks 100 6.8 Font changes : : : : : : : : : : : : 101 6.9 Comments : : : : : : : : : :...

Latex allergy is an emerging health issue believed to affect 5 to 10 percent of healthcare workers. The increase in the prevalence of latex allergy is believed to be associated with the increased use of latex gloves by healthcare workers in the mid 80’s in response to the AIDS epidemic. While statistics are unclear for the prevalence within the general population, it is estimated that somewhere...

bacillus sp. sbs25, a gram positive bacteria isolated from soil was found to be effectivein the biodegradation of natural rubber latex. the products of latex biodegradation were separated from the ether extract by thin layer chromatography. gas chromatography and mass spectrometry showed the biodegradation of the major compound into three simpler fractions with low molecular weights. this was f...