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Chloroquine hypersensitivity syndrome
Gise'le Kanny1, Jean Marie Renaudin, Thanh Lecompte
1Department of Internal Medicine, Clinical Immunology and Allergy, University Hospital, Ho^pital Central, 29 avenue de Lattre de Tassigny, 54035 Cedex, Nancy, France
European Journal of Internal Medicine
|February 12, 2002
Abstract:
Chloroquine is widely used for antimalarial prophylaxis. We report the first case of delayed hypersensitivity syndrome associated with fever, digestive symptoms, bullous eruption, and eosinophilia due to chloroquine as proven by drug history and a positive patch-test for chloroquine.