Table III.
Structurally related antibiotics tolerated in DRESS
| Patient no. | Culprit | Testing | Tolerated |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Penicillin | Cephalosporin | Carbapenem | Glycopeptide | |||
| 1 | Piperacillin/tazobactam | — | Yes (flucloxacillin) | Yes (cephalexin) | Yes (meropenem) | — |
| 2 | Piperacillin/tazobactam, cephazolin, ciprofloxacin | — | — | — | Yes (ertapenem) | — |
| 3 | Ceftriaxone | Patch to ceftriaxone positive | Yes (piperacillin/tazobactam, amoxycillin) | — | — | — |
| 4 | Flucloxacillin, amoxycillin, ciprofloxacin | — | — | — | Yes (meropenem) | — |
| 5 | Meropenem, vancomycin | Patch to meropenem, vancomycin negative; IDT to β-lactams negative | Yes (amoxycillin) | — | — | — |
| 6 | Meropenem, vancomycin | — | — | Yes (ceftriaxone) | — | — |
| 7 | Vancomycin, rifampicin | — | — | — | — | Yes (teicoplanin) |
IDT, Intradermal testing.