Sunday, April 17, 2016

Latex allergy and staph infections

I think allergies reflect the infections we have. Eczema has strong associations with latex allergies.  Staph has been isolated and found to coexist with eczema.  Is our immune system reacting to the staph on our skin? Is the staph reacting to be clumped by latex compounds?

latex and staph coagulase
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6671360

eczema and staph
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9990408
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16965415

eczema and latex allergy
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9674395
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8736334

strains of staph that make coagulase
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3634779

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