Outpatient penicillin use after negative skin testing and drug challenge in a pediatric population

Allergy and Asthma Proceedings

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 160-164

  Picard, Matthieu ^a   Paradis, Louis ^a   Nguyen, Mélanie ^a   Bégin, Philippe ^a   Paradis, Jean ^b   Roches, Anne Des ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

^b CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PENICILLIN G; PENICILLOYL POLYLYSINE;

ALLERGY TEST; ANAMNESIS; ANAPHYLAXIS; ANGIONEUROTIC EDEMA; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BRONCHOSPASM; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG CHALLENGE; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG USE; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTPATIENT; PARENTAL ATTITUDE; PENICILLIN ALLERGY; PHARMACOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; SKIN TEST; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; DATA COLLECTION; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; OUTPATIENTS; PENICILLINS; SKIN TESTS;

EID: 84860250655     PISSN: 10885412     EISSN: 15396304     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2500/aap.2012.33.3510     Document Type: Article

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