Open AccessUsefulness of skin tests in penicillin‐allergic patients after cephalosporins challenge
Author(s) -
Testi Sergio,
Ermini Giuseppe,
Iorno Maria Loredana,
Macchia Donatella,
Capretti Stefania,
Severino Maurizio Giuseppe
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
clinical and translational allergy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.979
H-Index - 37
ISSN - 2045-7022
DOI - 10.1186/2045-7022-4-s3-p64
Subject(s) - cefuroxime , medicine , ceftriaxone , cephalosporin , cefotaxime , penicillin , amoxicillin , antibiotics , pharmacology , microbiology and biotechnology , biology
Background Subjects with a history of documented penicillin allergy but with negative skin test results for cephalosporins, can tolerate subsequent challenge doses of cephalosporin without an allergic reaction. [1]. In immediate reactions to betalactams (BL), in some instances, specificity was mainly directed to the BL inducing the reaction, but in other cases specificity was mainly directed to another structure, probably related with previous BL exposure [2].