Moving Toward Optimizing Testing for Penicillin Allergy

Affiliations

¹ Department of Dermatology and Venereology, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria.
² Department of Allergy, Kaiser Permanente San Diego Medical Center, San Diego, Calif. Electronic address: eric.m.macy@kp.org.

Editorial

Werner Aberer et al. J Allergy Clin Immunol Pract. 2017 May-Jun.

. 2017 May-Jun;5(3):684-685.

doi: 10.1016/j.jaip.2017.03.020.

¹ Department of Dermatology and Venereology, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria.
² Department of Allergy, Kaiser Permanente San Diego Medical Center, San Diego, Calif. Electronic address: eric.m.macy@kp.org.

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Comment on

Amoxicillin challenge without penicillin skin testing in evaluation of penicillin allergy in a cohort of Marine recruits.
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Oral Challenge without Skin Testing Safely Excludes Clinically Significant Delayed-Onset Penicillin Hypersensitivity.
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Positive Skin Test or Specific IgE to Penicillin Does Not Reliably Predict Penicillin Allergy.
Tannert LK, Mortz CG, Skov PS, Bindslev-Jensen C. Tannert LK, et al. J Allergy Clin Immunol Pract. 2017 May-Jun;5(3):676-683. doi: 10.1016/j.jaip.2017.03.014. J Allergy Clin Immunol Pract. 2017. PMID: 28483318