In children evaluated for a possible macrolide allergy, intradermal testing with a suspected culprit drug at 0.05 mg/mL showed high specificity (92.7%) but limited sensitivity. To confirm an allergy ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Skin prick and intradermal testing do not truly confirm polyethylene glycol allergy. Patients may experience ...

During the study period, 1,143 patients were patch-tested with the NACDG Standard Allergen Tray ( Table 1 and Table 2; Figs 1 and 2). The two definitely relevant cases are presented here in more ...

* Associate in pediatrics, Harvard Medical School; associate visiting physician, Children's Hospital, Boston. † Formerly, Rockefeller Fellow, Children's Hospital. ‡ Formerly, physician, Medical ...

The patch-testing outfits were supplied through the courtesy of the Lederle Laboratories, Incorporated, Pearl River, New York.

As a family practitioner in a solo practice, I am occasionally asked to do TB screening tests. The requests are so infrequent that it is difficult for me to rationalize intradermal purified protein ...