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Contact Hypersensitivity as a Murine Model of Allergic Contact Dermatitis
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Finger Allergic Contact Dermatitis by Proxy Induced by Feline Thiamazole Cream
Gabriela Blanchard1, Ophélie Marchal1, Olivier Sorg2
1Department of Dermatology and Venereology, University Hospital of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
Contact Dermatitis
|July 30, 2026
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