Is there cross-reactivity between penicillins and cephalosporins?

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 119, Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Apter, Andrea J ^a,b   Kinman, Judith L ^a   Bilker, Warren B ^a   Herlim, Maximilian ^a   Margolis, David J ^a   Lautenbach, Ebbing ^a   Hennessy, Sean ^a   Strom, Brian L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Adverse drug reaction; Antibiotic allergy; Cephalosporin; Drug hypersensitivity; Penicillin

Indexed keywords

CEPHALOSPORIN; PENICILLIN G; SULFONAMIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ANAPHYLAXIS; ANGIONEUROTIC EDEMA; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; DERMATITIS; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; ERYTHEMA MULTIFORME; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LARYNX SPASM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOXIC EPIDERMAL NECROLYSIS; URTICARIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANAPHYLAXIS; ANGIONEUROTIC EDEMA; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CEPHALOSPORINS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS REACTIONS; DERMATITIS; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; EPIDERMAL NECROLYSIS, TOXIC; ERYTHEMA MULTIFORME; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LARYNGISMUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PENICILLINS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; URTICARIA;

EID: 33645217486     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2005.10.052     Document Type: Article

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