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ReviewAllergologie select2021

Allergic contact dermatitis to rubber accelerators in protective gloves: Problems, challenges, and solutions for occupational skin protection.

Andreas Hansen, Richard Brans, Flora Sonsmann

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Review in Allergologie select, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
7citing papers in PubMed
6.0field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 41 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Contact Dermatitis among Hospital Cleaners in Dar es Salaam: Prevalence and Associated Factors.Malawi medical journal : the journal of Medical Association of Malawi · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Andreas HansenDepartment of Dermatology, Environmental Medicine and Health Theory, University of Osnabrück, and.
Richard BransDepartment of Dermatology, Environmental Medicine and Health Theory, University of Osnabrück, and.
Flora SonsmannDepartment of Dermatology, Environmental Medicine and Health Theory, University of Osnabrück, and.
Osnabrück University · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Protective gloves are an elementary component of personal protective equipment in many occupations and are intended to protect the hands from various hazards (e.g., wetness, chemicals, mechanical forces, or thermal stress). This is particularly important when other occupational safety measures (e.g., technical-organizational measures) cannot be implemented or are insufficient. However, it is not uncommon for protective gloves themselves to become a problem, as some of their ingredients (e.g., rubber accelerators) can cause allergic reactions. Accelerators in rubber gloves include thiurams, dithiocarbamates, thiazoles, guanidines, and thioureas. If no alternative means of protection are available, this may even result in abandoning the profession. This article is about rubber accelerators, which are often contained in protective gloves made of different rubber materials (e.g., natural rubber (latex) and nitrile rubber) and may cause delayed-type allergies, as well as related challenges, problems, and solutions for occupational skin protection.

Indexed as

allergic contact dermatitisdelayed-type allergydithiocarbamatesguanidinesprotective glovesrubberrubber acceleratorsthiazolesthiurams

Identifiers

PMID34734158
PMCPMC8561832
OpenAlexW3210261664

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Registered trials

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