Overview of penicillin allergy

Clinical Reviews in Allergy and Immunology

Volumn 43, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 84-97

  Chang, Christopher ^a   Mahmood, Mubashar M ^b   Teuber, Suzanne S ^b   Gershwin, M Eric ^b  

^a NEMOURS ALFRED I DUPONT HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amoxicillin allergy; Anaphylaxis; Cephalosporin; Drug allergy; Penicillin; Stevens Johnson syndrome

Indexed keywords

AMINOPENICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CARBAPENEM; CEPHALOSPORIN; CEPHAMYCIN; MONOBACTAM DERIVATIVE; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE;

ANGIONEUROTIC EDEMA; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BRONCHOSPASM; CANDIDIASIS; CONTACT DERMATITIS; CROSS REACTION; CYTOPENIA; DESENSITIZATION; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG CROSS REACTIVITY; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG METABOLISM; ERYTHEMA MULTIFORME; FEVER; FIXED DRUG ERUPTION; HEMATURIA; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INJECTION SITE INFLAMMATION; INJECTION SITE PAIN; INTERSTITIAL NEPHRITIS; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MEASLES LIKE RASH; NONHUMAN; PENICILLIN ALLERGY; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PROTEINURIA; PRURITUS; RASH; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; SERUM SICKNESS; SKIN TEST; SPLENOMEGALY; STEVENS JOHNSON SYNDROME; SUPERINFECTION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; URTICARIA; VASCULITIS;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CEPHALOSPORINS; DESENSITIZATION, IMMUNOLOGIC; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PENICILLINS; RISK FACTORS; SKIN TESTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84871646577     PISSN: 10800549     EISSN: 15590267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12016-011-8279-6     Document Type: Article

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