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Contact Sensitivity to Nonoxynols: A Cause of Intolerance to Antiseptic Preparations

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Current Topics in Contact Dermatitis

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Seven cases of allergic contact dermatitis to antiseptic preparations are presented in which the reactions were caused not by active principles, but rather by nonoxynols used in the offending substances as nonionic surface-active agents.

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  1. Department of Medical Research (Dermatology), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, B-3000, Leuven, Belgium

    A. Dooms-Goossens, A. Gidi de Alam & H. Degreef

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  1. Hautklinik der Universität Heidelberg, Voßstraße 2, 6900, Heidelberg 1, Germany

    Peter Frosch

  2. Department of Medical Research (Dermatology), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 3000, Leuven, Belgium

    A. Dooms-Goossens P.Ph., Ph.D.

  3. Unit and Laboratory of Occupational and Environmental Dermatology, Catholic University of Louvain, 30, Clos Chapelle-aux-Champs, UCL 3033, 1200, Brussels, Belgium

    J.-M. Lachapelle M. D. (Professor of Dermatology) (Professor of Dermatology)

  4. St. John’s Hospital for Diseases of the Skin, Lisle Street, London, WC2H 7BJ, Great Britain

    R. J. G. Rycroft

  5. Department of Pathology, Free University Hospital, de Boelelaan 1117, 1081 HV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    R. J. Scheper

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Dooms-Goossens, A., de Alam, A.G., Degreef, H. (1989). Contact Sensitivity to Nonoxynols: A Cause of Intolerance to Antiseptic Preparations. In: Frosch, P., Dooms-Goossens, A., Lachapelle, JM., Rycroft, R.J.G., Scheper, R.J. (eds) Current Topics in Contact Dermatitis. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74299-6_19

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