Penicillin skin testing: A 20-year study at the West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Medical Center

Military Medicine

Volumn 170, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 701-704

  Gowda, Vinay C ^a   Klaustermeyer, William B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VA GREATER LOS ANGELES HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CLARITHROMYCIN; CORTICOSTEROID; OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; PENICILLIN G DERIVATIVE; PENICILLOYL POLYLYSINE; PIPERACILLIN; PREPEN; TIMENTIN;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANAPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CONSULTATION; DESENSITIZATION; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DRUG CHOICE; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DYSPNEA; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATIENT REFERRAL; PENICILLIN ALLERGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRURITUS; RELIABILITY; SAFETY; SKIN TEST; SYPHILIS; URTICARIA;

EID: 23444439505     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED.170.8.701     Document Type: Article

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