Penicillin Allergy Is Not Necessarily Forever

JAMA. 2017 Jul 4;318(1):82-83. doi: 10.1001/jama.2017.6510.

Authors

Jason A Trubiano¹, N Franklin Adkinson², Elizabeth Jane Phillips³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Infectious Diseases, Austin Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia2Department of Infectious Diseases, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
² John Hopkins Asthma and Allergy Centre, Baltimore, Maryland.
³ Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee5Institute for Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Murdoch University, Western Australia, Australia.

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MeSH terms

Diagnosis, Differential
Drug Hypersensitivity / diagnosis*
Drug Hypersensitivity / immunology
Exanthema / chemically induced
Humans
Immunoglobulin E
Penicillins / adverse effects*
Penicillins / immunology
Skin Tests

Substances

Penicillins
Immunoglobulin E

Grants and funding

P50 GM115305/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States