Vancomycin Hypersensitivity Diagnosed by Lymphocyte Blast Transformation

A 15-year-old male admitted for Pott's puffy tumor developed recurrent episodes of fever, diffuse morbilliform rash, eosinophilia, and tubulointerstitial nephritis while on multiple antibiotics. Lymphocyte blast transformation (LBT), a method of detecting cellular immune response by measuring...

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Main Authors: Nguyen P. Tran, Jeremy Katcher, Erin Rohman, Mary Francis Hall, Christie F. Michael, Isao Miyairi, D. Betty Lew
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2011-01-01
Series:Case Reports in Pediatrics
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/562620