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Penicillin allergy and association with ciprofloxacin coverage in community-onset urinary tract infection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 July 2018

Courtney M. Dewart
Affiliation:
Division of Epidemiology, The Ohio State University College of Public Health, Columbus, Ohio
Yuan Gao
Affiliation:
Division of Biostatistics, The Ohio State University College of Public Health, Columbus, Ohio
Protiva Rahman
Affiliation:
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University College of Engineering, Columbus, Ohio
Awa Mbodj
Affiliation:
Department of Biomedical Informatics, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, Ohio
Erinn M. Hade
Affiliation:
Department of Biomedical Informatics, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, Ohio
Kurt Stevenson
Affiliation:
Division of Epidemiology, The Ohio State University College of Public Health, Columbus, Ohio Division of Infectious Diseases, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, Ohio
Courtney L. Hebert*
Affiliation:
Department of Biomedical Informatics, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, Ohio Division of Infectious Diseases, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, Ohio
*
Author for correspondence: Courtney L. Hebert, Department of Biomedical Informatics, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, 220S Lincoln Tower, 1800 Cannon Drive, Columbus, OH 43210. E-mail: Courtney.Hebert@osumc.edu

Abstract

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© 2018 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved. 

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Footnotes

Cite this article: Dewart CM, et al. (2018). Penicillin allergy and association with ciprofloxacin coverage in community-onset urinary tract infection. Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology 2018, 39, 1127–1128. doi: 10.1017/ice.2018.155

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