Serum Sickness-Like Reactions in children taking antibiotics represent a distressing form of infection- associated urticaria and may recur unpredictably in susceptible children
J Allergy Clin Immunol Pract. 2025 Jan 22:S2213-2198(25)00062-5.
doi: 10.1016/j.jaip.2025.01.018.
Online ahead of print.
1 Division of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN. Electronic address: Edward.a.fernandez@vumc.org.
2 Division of Allergy and Immunology, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. Electronic address: robsonmh@ucmail.uc.edu.
3 Division of Allergy and Immunology, Vanderbilt Children's Medical Center, Nashville TN. Electronic address: grayson.summar@vumc.org.
4 Division of Allergy and Immunology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati OH. Electronic address: patricia.earl@cchmc.org.
5 Division of Allergy and Immunology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati OH. Electronic address: trisha.wendling@cchmc.org.
6 Division of Allergy and Immunology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati OH. Electronic address: michelle.wessels@cchmc.org.
7 Division of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN; Division of Pediatric Allergy, Immunology and Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt, Nashville, TN. Electronic address: Allison.norton@vumc.org.
8 Division of Allergy and Immunology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati OH; Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. Electronic address: Kimberly.risma@cchmc.org.
Keywords:
Beta-lactam antibiotics; Drug challenge; Drug reactions; adverse drug reaction; drug allergy in children; drug hypersensitivity; pediatric adverse drug reactions; pediatric drug allergy; serum sickness -like reaction; urticaria multiforme.