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. 2018 Sep;39(9):1127-1128.
doi: 10.1017/ice.2018.155. Epub 2018 Jul 23.

Penicillin allergy and association with ciprofloxacin coverage in community-onset urinary tract infection

Courtney M Dewart  1 , Yuan Gao  2 , Protiva Rahman  3 , Awa Mbodj  4 , Erinn M Hade  4 , Kurt Stevenson  1   5 , Courtney L Hebert  4   5
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Penicillin allergy and association with ciprofloxacin coverage in community-onset urinary tract infection

Courtney M Dewart et al. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2018 Sep.
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Conflict of interest: All authors report support from NIH grants during the conduct of this study.

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Figure 1.
Directed acyclic graph of the proposed association between penicillin-class allergy label and ciprofloxacin-resistant urinary tract infection (UTI), including partial mediation by recent fluoroquinolone use. Potential confounding variables accounted for in our analysis also presented: demographics (sex and age), healthcare exposure (nursing home transfer, emergency department admissions, inpatient admissions), and medical history (Elixhauser score, cephalosporin allergy, carbapenem allergy).
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