Since January 2001, the European Surveillance System on Contact Allergies (ESSCA), supported by European Union funding (contract QLK4-CT-2001-00343), has started to collect patch-test data. This compr...
OBJECTIVE: Monitoring HIV infection in sentinel populations of sexually transmitted disease (STD) patients in several geographical areas. This paper describes the main characteristics of the study pop...
BACKGROUND: Continual surveillance based on patch test results has proved useful for the identification of contact allergy. OBJECTIVES: To provide a current view on the spectrum of contact allergy to ...