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Genome-Wide Association Study in Immunocompetent Patients with Delayed Hypersensitivity to Sulfonamide Antimicrobials.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2016
Reinhart Jennifer M, Motsinger-Reif Alison, Dickey Allison, Yale Steven, Trepanier Lauren A
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BACKGROUND: Hypersensitivity (HS) reactions to sulfonamide antibiotics occur uncommonly, but with potentially severe clinical manifestations. A familial predisposition to sulfonamide HS is suspected, but robust predictive genetic risk factors have yet to be identified. Strongly linked genetic polymorphisms have been used clinically as screening tests for other HS reactions prior to administration of high-risk...
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