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Drug Allergy (cont.)

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Author: Samuel M. Keim, MD, Program Director, Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Arizona Health Sciences Center

Editor: Melissa Conrad Stoppler, MD, Chief Medical Editor, eMedicineHealth.com

Author:Kevin Hanson, MD, Staff Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Arizona College of Medicine.

Coauthor: Samuel M Keim, MD, Program Director, Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, Division of Emergency Medicine, University of Arizona Health Sciences Center.

Editors:Patrick Taylor, MD, FAAEM, Medical Director, Department of Emergency Medicine, CHRISTUS St Frances Cabrini Hospital; Francisco Talavera, PharmD, PhD, Senior Pharmacy Editor, eMedicine; James S Cohen, MD, Consulting Staff, James Cohen, PC.


Last Editorial Review: 5/29/2007

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