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The European baseline series in 10 European Countries, 2005/2006--results of the European Surveillance System on Contact Allergies (ESSCA)

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Date of Publication
2009
Publication Type
Article
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Universitätsklinik fü...

Author
Uter, Wolfgang
Rämsch, Christiane
Aberer, Werner
Ayala, Fabio
Balato, Anna
Beliauskiene, Aiste
Fortina, Anna Belloni
Bircher, Andreas
Brasch, Jochen
Chowdhury, Mahbub M U
Coenraads, Pieter-Jan
Schuttelaar, Marie-Louise
Cooper, Sue
Corradin, Maria Teresa
Elsner, Peter
English, John S C
Fartasch, Manigè
Mahler, Vera
Frosch, Peter J
Fuchs, Thomas
Gawkrodger, David J
Gimènez-Arnau, Ana-Maria
Green, Cathy M
Horne, Helen L
Jolanki, Riitta
King, Codagh M
Krêcisz, Beata
Kiec-Swierczynska, Marta
Ormerod, Anthony D
Orton, David I
Peserico, Andrea
Rantanen, Tapio
Rustemeyer, Thomas
Sansom, Jane E
Simon, Dagmar
Universitätsklinik für Dermatologie
Statham, Barry N
Wilkinson, Mark
Schnuch, Axel
Series
Contact dermatitis
ISSN or ISBN (if monograph)
0105-1873
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Language
English
Publisher DOI
10.1111/j.1600-0536.2009.01572.x
PubMed ID
19659962
Description
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 important sensitizers across Europe. PATIENTS/METHODS: Clinical and patch test data of 19 793 patients patch tested in 2005/2006 in the 31 participating departments from 10 European countries (the European Surveillance System on Contact Allergies' (ESSCA) www.essca-dc.org) were descriptively analysed, aggregated to four European regions. RESULTS: Nickel sulfate remains the most common allergen with standardized prevalences ranging from 19.7% (central Europe) to 24.4% (southern Europe). While a number of allergens shows limited variation across the four regions, such as Myroxylon pereirae (5.3-6.8%), cobalt chloride (6.2-8.8%) or thiuram mix (1.7-2.4%), the differences observed with other allergens may hint on underlying differences in exposures, for example: dichromate 2.4% in the UK (west) versus 4.5-5.9% in the remaining EU regions, methylchloroisothiazolinone/methylisothiazolinone 4.1% in the South versus 2.1-2.7% in the remaining regions. CONCLUSIONS: Notwithstanding residual methodological variation (affecting at least some 'difficult' allergens) tackled by ongoing efforts for standardization, a comparative analysis as presented provides (i) a broad overview on contact allergy frequencies and (ii) interesting starting points for further, in-depth investigation.
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https://boris-portal.unibe.ch/handle/20.500.12422/103919
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