Oral challenges are needed in the diagnosis of β-lactam hypersensitivity

Clinical and Experimental Allergy

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 185-190

  Bousquet, P J ^a,b   Pipet, A ^a   Bousquet Rouanet, L ^a   Demoly, P ^a  

^a HÔPITAL ARNAUD DE VILLENEUVE   (France)

^b NÎMES UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

lactam allergy; IgE; Provocation tests; Recommendations; Skin tests

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AMPICILLIN; BETA LACTAM; CEFACLOR; CEFADROXIL; CEFALEXIN; CEFALOTIN; CEFAMANDOLE; CEFAPIRIN; CEFATRIZINE; CEFAZOLIN; CEFOTAXIME; CEFOTIAM; CEFOXITIN; CEFPODOXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CEFUROXIME; CEPHALOSPORIN; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CEPHALOSPORINASE; MEZLOCILLIN; OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN G; PENICILLIN G SODIUM; PENICILLIN V; PIPERACILLIN;

ANAPHYLACTIC SHOCK; ANAPHYLAXIS; ANGIONEUROTIC EDEMA; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; ATOPY; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BRONCHOSPASM; CONJUNCTIVITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPENIA; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG RASH WITH EOSINOPHILIA AND SYSTEMIC SYMPTOMS; FEMALE; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PENICILLIN ALLERGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVOCATION TEST; QUESTIONNAIRE; RASH; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKIN MANIFESTATION; SKIN TEST; STEVENS JOHNSON SYNDROME; SYSTEMIC DISEASE; TOXIC EPIDERMAL NECROLYSIS; URTICARIA; VASCULITIS;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BETA-LACTAMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SKIN TESTS;

EID: 36848999251     PISSN: 09547894     EISSN: 13652222     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2222.2007.02867.x     Document Type: Article

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