Vancomycin Hypersensitivity Diagnosed by Lymphocyte Blast Transformation

• Main Authors: Nguyen P. Tran (Author), Jeremy Katcher (Author), Erin Rohman (Author), Mary Francis Hall (Author), Christie F. Michael (Author), Isao Miyairi (Author), D. Betty Lew (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Hindawi Limited, 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
• Online Access: Connect to this object online.

A 15-year-old male admitted for Pott's puffy tumor developed recurrent episodes of fever, diffuse morbilliform rash, eosinophilia, and tubulointerstitial nephritis while on multiple antibiotics. Lymphocyte blast transformation (LBT), a method of detecting cellular immune response by measuring l...