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Javier Iglesias-Souto1, Ruperto González, Paloma Poza
1Consulta de Alergia Infantil, Hospital del Tórax-Ofra, CHUNSC, Lund University, Sweden.
The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal
|June 8, 2012
Abstract:
Many children with adverse reactions to beta-lactams are labeled as allergic without performing an allergy study to confirm it. In this retrospective study of 10 years, we detected only 3.3% positive cases. Although international guidelines recommend a second allergy workup in patients with a negative study, we found from our results a low profitability of retesting.
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