Adverse reactions to antibiotics: Clues for recognizing, understanding, and avoiding them

Postgraduate Medicine

Volumn 101, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 97-108

  Gleckman, Richard A ^a   Borrego, Fernando ^b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Carney Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOPURINOL; AMOXICILLIN; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; BETA LACTAMASE INHIBITOR; CARBAMAZEPINE; CARINDACILLIN; CEFACLOR; CEFAMANDOLE NAFATE; CEFIXIME; CILASTATIN PLUS IMIPENEM; CLARITHROMYCIN; CLINDAMYCIN; CORTICOSTEROID; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DIGOXIN; ERYTHROMYCIN ESTOLATE; FUROSEMIDE; GENTAMICIN; METICILLIN; METRONIDAZOLE; MINOCYCLINE; NAFCILLIN; OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; TETRACYCLINE; UNINDEXED DRUG; VANCOMYCIN; WARFARIN;

BLEEDING; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; GASTROINTESTINAL TOXICITY; HUMAN; LIVER TOXICITY; NEPHROTOXICITY; NEUROTOXICITY; OTOTOXICITY; PREGNANCY; REVIEW; SERUM SICKNESS; SIDE EFFECT;

EID: 0030954999     PISSN: 00325481     EISSN: 19419260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3810/pgm.1997.04.198     Document Type: Article

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