A review of evidence supporting the American Academy of Pediatrics recommendation for prescribing cephalosporin antibiotics for penicillin-allergic patients

Pediatrics

Volumn 115, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1048-1057

  Pichichero, Michael E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Allergy; Cephalosporin; Penicillin

Indexed keywords

CEPHALOSPORIN; PENICILLIN G; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE;

ACUTE OTITIS MEDIA; ANAPHYLAXIS; BRONCHOSPASM; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CROSS ALLERGY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INTERSTITIAL NEPHRITIS; LARYNX EDEMA; LUNG INFILTRATE; MEASLES LIKE RASH; NEUTROPENIA; PENICILLIN ALLERGY; PHYSICIAN; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SERUM SICKNESS; SINUSITIS; SKIN TEST; STEVENS JOHNSON SYNDROME; SWELLING; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; URTICARIA; VASCULITIS; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CROSS REACTION; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNOLOGY; MEDICAL SOCIETY; OTITIS MEDIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RISK; UNITED STATES;

ANAPHYLAXIS; CEPHALOSPORINS; CROSS REACTIONS; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; OTITIS MEDIA; PENICILLINS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; RISK; SINUSITIS; SKIN TESTS; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 23244454423     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 00314005     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2004-1276     Document Type: Review

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