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Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: Quality of β-Lactam Allergy Assessment in Patients with Methicillin-Susceptible Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) Infections at a Tertiary-Care VA Medical Center

BACKGROUND: β-Lactams (BL) are optimal therapy for MSSA infections; however allergies to BL are reported frequently and may alter antibiotic selection for these infections. Limited data exist evaluating the frequency at which a new BL allergy history (AH) is taken when patients present with MSSA inf...

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Autores principales: Akpoji, Ukwen, Stiefel, Usha, Perez, Federico, Fernandez, James, Burant, Christopher, Sims, Sharanie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5631862/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofx163.608