Prolonged drug provocation with an initial full therapeutic dose
to diagnose serum sickness-like reactions (SSLR) to β-lactams in
children
Marcel M Bergmanna,b,c, Eva Gomesd,
Natalia Blanca-Lópeze, Jean-Christoph
Caubeta, Philippe A Eigenmanna ,
Giulia Liccioli f, Francesca Morif,
Marina Atanaskovic Markovicg
a Pediatric allergy unit, Department of women,
children and adolescents, University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva,
Switzerland
b Centro Pediatrico del Mendrisiotto, Mendrisio,
Switzerland
c Faculty of Biomedical Science, Università della
Svizzera Italiana (USI), Lugano, Switzerland
d Serviço de Imunoalergologia, Centro Hospitalar
Universitário do Porto, Porto, Portugal
e Servicio de Alergia, Laboratorio de Investigación,
Hospital Universitario Infanta Leonor, Madrid, Spain
f Allergy Unit, Meyer Children’s University Hospital,
IRCCS, Florence, Italy
g University of Belgrade Faculty of Medicine,
University Children’s Hospital, Belgrade, Serbia