Amoxicillin-Induced Eosinophilic Pneumonia with Granulomatous Reaction: Discrepancy between Drug-Induced Lymphocyte Stimulation Test Findings and the Provocation Drug Test

Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology

Tosihide Kumamoto¹  Eishi Miyazaki¹  Masaru Ando¹  Ryuichi Takenaka¹  Osamu Matsuno¹ 

[1]Division of Respiratory Disease, Department of Brain and Nerve, Oita University Faculty of Medicine, Yufu-city, Oita, Japan

关键词: provocation test;    granuloma;    drug-induced pneumonia;    drug-induced lymphocyte stimulation test;    amoxicillin;   

Others  :  1083820
DOI  :  10.1186/1710-1492-3-2-70

【 授权许可】

   
2007 Canadian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

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