PENICILLIN ALLERGY - CLINICAL-EXPERIENCE WITH A BATTERY OF SKIN-TEST REAGENTS
PENICILLIN ALLERGY - CLINICAL-EXPERIENCE WITH A BATTERY OF SKIN-TEST REAGENTS
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DOI:
10.1016/0091-6749(82)90105-1
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发表时间:
1982-01-01
影响因子:
14.2
通讯作者:
VANDELLEN, RG
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作者:
SOLLEY, GO;GLEICH, GJ;VANDELLEN, RG
Patients (778) underwent penicillin skin testing. Each patient gave a history of previous penicillin allergy. The skin-test reagents consisted of: fresh solutions of commercially prepared penicillin G (PEN G), ampicillin (AMP) and methicillin (METH); polylysine conjugates of the major antigenic determinants of each of the 3 drugs; and alkaline hydrolysates of each drug. A total of 108 (14%) patients showed positive reactions to 1 or more of the reagents. Certain patients showed reactivity to many reagents, whereas others reacted selectively to only 1 or 2 reagents. Addition of reagents of AMP and METH resulted in a greater number of positive reactors than when reagents of PEN G alone were used. Of the group whose skin tests were negative, 290 (43%) were later treated with a penicillin, 12 of these (4.1%) had allergic reactions. Eight of the group whose skin tests were positive were subsequently treated, and 4 of these (50%) had allergic reactions again. A group of 151 patients whose skin tests were negative and 27 patients whose skin tests were positive were treated with a cephalosporin. Only 2 patients had allergic reactions to the drug; both had had negative skin tests to penicillin. The risk of subsequent allergic reactivity to penicillin is apparently much lower if the skin tests are negative than if positive, that testing with semisynthetic penicillins increases the number of skin-test reactors and that the incidence of allergic reactions is low in patients treated with a cephalosporin.