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  2. Acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

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    In patients with penicillin allergy, doxycycline or trimethoprim are preferred. [7] More complicated bronchitis may be when the patient is more than 65 years old, has four or more exacerbations per year, has an FEV1/FVC ratio of less than 50% on spirometry, has failed to respond to previous antibiotic treatment, and/or has comorbidity. [7]

  3. Aztreonam - Wikipedia

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    Aztreonam can be safely used in people with a penicillin or cephalosporin allergy (except for people with a ceftazidime allergy as ceftazidime and aztreonam share a similar side chain). [13] It is also frequently used as an alternative to aminoglycosides because is not ototoxic or nephrotoxic.

  4. β-Lactam antibiotic - Wikipedia

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    Nevertheless, the risk of cross-reactivity is sufficient to warrant the contraindication of all β-lactam antibiotics in patients with a history of severe allergic reactions (urticaria, anaphylaxis, interstitial nephritis) to any β-lactam antibiotic. Rarely, allergic reactions have been triggered by exposure from kissing and sexual contact ...

  5. Most people aren't really allergic to penicillin. More ... - AOL

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    Stone is leading efforts at Vanderbilt to test patients whose charts say they have a penicillin allergy. People are given a small dose of the antibiotic in a controlled environment and monitored ...

  6. Penicillin - Wikipedia

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    Penicillin molecules are small enough to pass through the spaces of glycoproteins in the cell wall. For this reason Gram-positive bacteria are very susceptible to penicillin (as first evidenced by the discovery of penicillin in 1928 [46]). [47] Penicillin, or any other molecule, enters Gram-negative bacteria in a different manner. The bacteria ...

  7. Type I hypersensitivity - Wikipedia

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    Type I hypersensitivity (or immediate hypersensitivity), in the Gell and Coombs classification of allergic reactions, is an allergic reaction provoked by re-exposure to a specific type of antigen referred to as an allergen. [1] Type I is distinct from type II, type III and type IV hypersensitivities. The relevance of the Gell and Coombs ...

  8. Cefaclor - Wikipedia

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    Skin allergy to cefaclor. The principal side effect of the cephalosporins is hypersensitivity. Penicillin-sensitive patients may also be allergic to the cephalosporins, depending on the side chain and it's relation to the penicillin allergy. Most patients with penicillin allergy can tolerate the majority of cephalosporins without allergic ...

  9. Cephalosporin - Wikipedia

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    The commonly quoted figure of 10% of patients with allergic hypersensitivity to penicillins and/or carbapenems also having cross-reactivity with cephalosporins originated from a 1975 study looking at the original cephalosporins, [9] and subsequent "safety first" policy meant this was widely quoted and assumed to apply to all members of the ...