Correction: Practical management of antibiotic allergy in adults (Journal of Clinical Pathology (2011) 64 (192-199) DOI: 10.1136/jcp.2010.077289);Practical management of antibiotic allergy in adults

Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 192-199

  McLean Tooke, Andrew ^a   Aldridge, Catherine ^b   Stroud, Catherine ^c   Spickett, Gavin P ^c  

^a FREMANTLE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH DURHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL VICTORIA INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AZTREONAM; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CEFALEXIN; CEFALOTIN; CEFAZOLIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CEFUROXIME; CEPHALOSPORIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; MACROLIDE; MINOCYCLINE; MONOBACTAM; PENICILLIN G; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; SULFONAMIDE; TEICOPLANIN; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ANAMNESIS; ANAPHYLAXIS; ANGIONEUROTIC EDEMA; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT ALLERGY; CROSS REACTION; DELAYED HYPERSENSITIVITY; DESENSITIZATION; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; EOSINOPHILIA; EXFOLIATION SYNDROME; EXFOLIATIVE DERMATITIS; FLUSHING; GASTROINTESTINAL TOXICITY; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; IN VITRO STUDY; INTRACUTANEOUS TEST; LUPUS VULGARIS; LYMPHADENOPATHY; PATCH TEST; PERICARDITIS; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PRICK TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVOCATION TEST; PRURITUS; PUSTULOSIS; RASH; RED MAN SYNDROME; REVIEW; RISK MANAGEMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIDE EFFECT; STEVENS JOHNSON SYNDROME; TOXIC EPIDERMAL NECROLYSIS; URTICARIA; VASCULITIS;

EID: 79951958438     PISSN: 00219746     EISSN: 14724146     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jcp.2010.077289corr1     Document Type: Erratum

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