The role of penicillin in benign skin rashes in childhood: A prospective study based on drug rechallenge

Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Volumn 127, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 218-222

  Caubet, Jean Christoph ^a   Kaiser, Laurent ^a   Lemaître, Barbara ^a   Fellay, Benoît ^b   Gervaix, Alain ^a   Eigenmann, Philippe A ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b Hopital Cantonal de Fribourg   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

lactam; blood allergy test; cephalosporin; children; drug allergy; oral challenge; penicillin; skin rash; skin test; virus

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CEFTRIAXONE; CEFUROXIME; CEPHALOSPORIN; PENICILLIN G;

ADOLESCENT; ALLERGY TEST; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BRONCHITIS; CHILD; CHILDHOOD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELAYED HYPERSENSITIVITY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; EMERGENCY WARD; ENTEROVIRUS; ENTEROVIRUS INFECTION; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS INFECTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTRACUTANEOUS TEST; MACULOPAPULAR RASH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OTITIS; PATCH TEST; PENICILLIN ALLERGY; PHARYNGITIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RASH; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROLOGY; SINUSITIS; THROAT CULTURE; URTICARIA; VIRUS;

ADOLESCENT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DRUG ERUPTIONS; EXANTHEMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PENICILLINS; SKIN TESTS;

EID: 78650914384     PISSN: 00916749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2010.08.025     Document Type: Article

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