Volume 1, Number 4, September 2007

Making Sense of Drug Allergy: What Goes Wrong and Why
Samantha Walker, Alexandra Croom

Allergic or other immunological mechanisms are thought to account for 6-20% of all adverse drug reactions, but in most cases the mechanism is unclear. This article provides an in-depth review of drug allergy – adverse drug reactions with a known immunological mechanism or with clinical features that mimic an immunological reaction.

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