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Clinical Focus: Allergies, Autoimmune Disease and Immunizations - Review

Positive penicillin allergy testing results: a systematic review and meta-analysis of papers published from 2010 through 2015

Farnoush HarandianMcGill University, Montreal, CanadaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Donavan PhamMcGill University, Montreal, Canada
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Moshe Ben-ShoshanDepartment of Allergy & Immunology, McGill University Health Center, Montreal Children’s Hospital, Montreal, Canada
Pages 557-562 | Received 01 Mar 2016, Accepted 16 May 2016, Published online: 06 Jun 2016

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