Is spurious penicillin allergy a major public health concern only in high-income countries?

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Allergy and Immunology, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, West Midlands, UK mtkrishna@yahoo.com.
• ² Institute of Immunology and Immunotherapy, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston Campus, Birmingham, UK.
• ³ Department of Medicine, University of Colorado at Anschutz campus, Aurora, Oregon, USA.
• ⁴ Department of Population Health, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA.
• ⁵ Faculty of Medicine, Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt.
• ⁶ Department of Phamacy Practice, JSS Academy of Higher Education and Research, Mysore, Karnataka, India.
• ⁷ Division of Epidemiology, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA.
• ⁸ Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Central, Sri Lanka.
• ⁹ Health Services Management Centre, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, West Midlands, UK.
• ¹⁰ Departments of Public Health and Community Programs, Dhulikhel Hospital Kathmandu University Hospital, Kathmandu, Nepal.
• ¹¹ Department of Clinical Surgical Sciences, The University of the West Indies St Augustine Campus, St Augustine, Tunapuna-Piarco, Trinidad and Tobago.
• ¹² Department of Pediatrics, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Bridgetown, Saint Michael, Barbados.
• ¹³ Department of Internal Medicine, Universitas Pelita Harapan, Tangerang, Banten, Indonesia.
• ¹⁴ Division of Population Health, Health Services Research and Primary care, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
• ¹⁵ Department of Respiratory Medicine, JSS Medical College, JSSAHER, Mysore, Karnataka, India.
• ¹⁶ The School of Pharmacy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.