If you have ever had an allergic reaction to penicillin, you may have been told to also avoid cephalosporin antibiotics. Most ...

Because of the high rate of cross-sensitivities and cross-reactions between neomycin and other antibiotics, patients should list neomycin as a medical allergy for the rest of their lives.

Houston Methodist nurses are using an adapted screening tool at the bedside to assess whether patients have true penicillin allergies, thus enabling their care teams to offer them the most appropriate ...

Gonorrhea: <2yrs: not recommended; prepubertal: amoxicillin 50mg/kg + probenecid 25mg/kg as a single dose. Cephalosporin, imipenem or other allergy: not recommended. Discontinue if allergic ...

Establishing a clear penicillin allergy assessment pathway (PAAP) in a safe clinical setting can be effective in ...

Gonorrhea: <2yrs: not recommended; prepubertal: amoxicillin 50mg/kg + probenecid 25mg/kg as a single dose. Cephalosporin, imipenem or other allergy: not recommended. Discontinue if allergic ...

Bacitracin is a polypeptide antibiotic that is chemically unrelated to neomycin. It inhibits bacterial cell wall synthesis. It is produced by Bacillus subtilis (Gehrig & Warshaw, 2008).