From Road Rash to Top Allergen in a Flash: Bacitracin

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 30, Issue 4 I, 2004, Pages 521-524

  Jacob, Sharon E ^a   James, William D ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACITRACIN; WHITE PETROLATUM;

ANAPHYLAXIS; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; BURN; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLLAPSE; CONTACT DERMATITIS; DERMATITIS; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG MONITORING; DYSPNEA; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; MEDICAL RECORD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; REVIEW; SKIN ABRASION; SWEATING; ULCER; URTICARIA;

ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; BACITRACIN; DERMATITIS, ALLERGIC CONTACT; DRUG ERUPTIONS; HUMANS;

EID: 1942498994     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4725.2004.30168.x     Document Type: Review

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