Allergic reactions to antibiotics, mainly betalactams: Facts and controversies

European Annals of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 223-229

  Viola, M ^a   Quaratino, D ^b   Gaeta, F ^a   Valluzzi, R L ^a   Caruso, C ^a   Rumi, G ^a   Romano, A ^a,c  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b LABORATORIO DI PATOLOGIA VASCOLARE   (Italy)

^c OASI RESEARCH INSTITUTE IRCCS   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOPENICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; BACITRACIN; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CEFUROXIME; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CLARITHROMYCIN; CLIOQUINOL; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; FUSIDIC ACID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E ANTIBODY; NEOMYCIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; PENICILLIN G; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE; RIBOSTAMYCIN; ROFECOXIB; ROXITHROMYCIN; SPIRAMYCIN; STREPTOMYCIN; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; SULFONAMIDE; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ANAMNESIS; ANAPHYLACTIC SHOCK; ANAPHYLAXIS; ANGIONEUROTIC EDEMA; BLOOD DYSCRASIA; BRONCHOSPASM; CLINICAL FEATURE; CROSS REACTION; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INTRACUTANEOUS TEST; LYMPHOCYTE TRANSFORMATION TEST; NEPHRITIS; PATCH TEST; PRICK TEST; PROVOCATION TEST; RASH; REVIEW; RHINITIS; SERUM SICKNESS; SKIN MANIFESTATION; SKIN TEST; STEVENS JOHNSON SYNDROME; T LYMPHOCYTE; URTICARIA;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BETA-LACTAMS; CROSS REACTIONS; DRUG ERUPTIONS; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INTRADERMAL TESTS; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MACROLIDES; QUINOLONES; RADIOALLERGOSORBENT TEST; SULFONAMIDES; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS;

EID: 22444439731     PISSN: 03979148     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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