3. Drug hypersensitivity

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 185, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 333-338

  Thien, Francis C K ^a  

^a ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; AMOXICILLIN; AMPICILLIN; ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CELECOXIB; CEPHALOSPORIN; CONTRAST MEDIUM; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DICLOFENAC; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT; FLURBIPROFEN; GELATIN SUCCINATE; IBUPROFEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INSULIN; KETOPROFEN; MUSCLE RELAXANT AGENT; NAPROXEN; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE; PENICILLIN G; SALAZOSULFAPYRIDINE; SULFONAMIDE; SULFONYLUREA; SUMATRIPTAN; UNINDEXED DRUG; VANCOMYCIN;

ANAMNESIS; ANAPHYLAXIS; ANGIONEUROTIC EDEMA; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; DELAYED HYPERSENSITIVITY; DESENSITIZATION; DIARRHEA; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG FEVER; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG POTENTIATION; EOSINOPHILIA; FIXED DRUG ERUPTION; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMEDIATE TYPE HYPERSENSITIVITY; KNEE PAIN; LIVER TOXICITY; MACULOPAPULAR RASH; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MYALGIA; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PENICILLIN ALLERGY; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; PROVOCATION TEST; PUSTULE; RHINITIS; SKIN TEST; STEVENS JOHNSON SYNDROME; T LYMPHOCYTE; TIME; TOXIC EPIDERMAL NECROLYSIS; VESICULAR RASH;

EID: 33749501063     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2006.tb00591.x     Document Type: Article

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