Skin testing for beta-lactam antibiotics: Impact of the availability of a major determinant

Current Allergy and Asthma Reports

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 64-71

  Khan, Fatima S ^a   Weiss, Michael E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anaphylaxis; Antibiotics; Beta lactam ( lactam); Hypersensitivity; Major determinant; Minor determinant; Penicillin skin testing

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AMPICILLIN; AZTREONAM; BETA LACTAM; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CARBAPENEM; CD63 ANTIGEN; CEFAMANDOLE; CEFAZOLIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CEPHALOSPORIN; ERTAPENEM; GLUCOCORTICOID; IMIPENEM; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; MEROPENEM; MONOBACTAM DERIVATIVE; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; PENICILLIN G; PENICILLOIC ACID; PENICILLOYL POLYLYSINE; STAT6 PROTEIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ALLERGY TEST; ANAMNESIS; ANAPHYLAXIS; ANGIONEUROTIC EDEMA; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; BRONCHOSPASM; CONTACT SENSITIVITY; DESENSITIZATION; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG CHOICE; DRUG CROSS REACTIVITY; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG FEVER; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ERYTHEMA MULTIFORME; ERYTHEMA NODOSUM; ERYTHRODERMA; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; HEMATURIA; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; IMMEDIATE TYPE HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFECTION; INTERSTITIAL NEPHRITIS; INTRACUTANEOUS TEST; LARYNX EDEMA; LOW DRUG DOSE; LYMPHADENOPATHY; LYMPHOCYTE TRANSFORMATION TEST; MACULOPAPULAR RASH; NEPHROTIC SYNDROME; NEPHROTOXICITY; NEUTROPENIA; NONHUMAN; PENICILLIN ALLERGY; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRICK TEST; PROTEINURIA; PRURITUS; SERUM SICKNESS; SKIN MANIFESTATION; SKIN TEST; SKIN TOXICITY; STEVENS JOHNSON SYNDROME; SYSTEMIC VASCULITIS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TOXIC EPIDERMAL NECROLYSIS; URTICARIA; VASCULITIS; WHEEZING;

ANAPHYLAXIS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BETA-LACTAMS; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; HUMANS; INTRADERMAL TESTS;

EID: 84872608987     PISSN: 15297322     EISSN: 15346315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11882-012-0323-y     Document Type: Article

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