ECONOMY IN RUBBER GLOVES.

Rubber gloves redux.

Latex allergies stretch beyond rubber gloves.

Due to the importance of protein phosphorylation in cellular control, many researches are undertaken to predict the kinase-specific phosphorylation sites. Referred to our previous work, KinasePhos 1.0, incorporated profile hidden Markov model (HMM) with flanking residues of the kinase-specific phosphorylation sites. Herein, a new web server, KinasePhos 2.0, incorporates support vector machines ...

[Psoriasis following contact with rubber gloves in a patient sensitized to rubber additives].

were performed according to the guidelines of the Spanish Contact Dermatitis Research Group (abbreviated in Spanish to GEIDAC) using the standard GEIDAC series and a rubber series (Chemotechnique, Malmö, Sweden). Readings at 48 and 96 hours were positive (++) for the carba mix, the thiuram mix, the black rubber mix, tetramethylthiuram monosulfide, tetramethylthiuram disulfide, N-cyclohexylN-phe...

Occupational contact allergy caused by rubber gloves--nothing has changed.

BACKGROUND Allergic contact dermatitis caused by rubber gloves is not infrequent, and has almost exclusively been attributed to contact sensitization to accelerators. Thiurams have been the most frequent allergens, followed by dithiocarbamates. OBJECTIVES To describe the current allergen pattern in patients with occupational allergic contact dermatitis caused by rubber gloves. METHODS This ...

Contact dermatitis from penetration of rubber gloves by acrylic monomer.

An orthopaedic surgeon developed dermatitis from acrylic materials. The acrylic monomer was found to penetrate surgical rubber gloves readily. Cases of "rubber glove dermatitis" with negative patch tests may have a similar explanation. Laboratory tests suggest that monomer does not damage rubber sufficiently to allow bacteria to penetrate gloves, but it remains possible that this would happen u...