Cross-Reactivity among Beta-Lactams

Current Allergy and Asthma Reports

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 1-12

  Romano, Antonino ^a,b   Gaeta, Francesco ^a   Poves, Maria Francisca Arribas ^c   Valluzzi, Rocco Luigi ^a  

^a Department of Internal Medicine and Geriatrics   (Italy)

^b OASI RESEARCH INSTITUTE IRCCS   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Aztreonam; Beta lactams; Carbapenems; Cephalosporins; Cross reactivity; Hypersensitivity; Penicillins

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AZTREONAM; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CARBAPENEM DERIVATIVE; CEFADROXIL; CEFALEXIN; CEFAMANDOLE; CEFOPERAZONE; CEFTRIAXONE; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CILASTATIN PLUS IMIPENEM; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; MEROPENEM; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; PENICILLIN G; BETA LACTAM;

ALLERGY TEST; ANAPHYLAXIS; DELAYED HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG CROSS REACTIVITY; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG RESPONSE; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG STRUCTURE; DRUG TOLERABILITY; HUMAN; PROVOCATION TEST; REVIEW; SKIN TEST; T LYMPHOCYTE; CROSS REACTION; IMMEDIATE TYPE HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNOLOGY;

BETA-LACTAMS; CROSS REACTIONS; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY, IMMEDIATE;

EID: 84975746449     PISSN: 15297322     EISSN: 15346315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11882-016-0594-9     Document Type: Review

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