U.S., Sept. 18 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT07177690) titled 'A Study of the Impact of Penicillin Allergy on Antimicrobial Resistance and ouTcomes' on July 22.
Brief Summary: Penicillin allergy is one of the commonest reported allergies. The presence of a penicillin allergy record in a patients notes leads to the avoidance of recommended first-line penicillin antibiotics and the use of alternative non-penicillin antibiotics which can be less effective, have more side effects and have a greater propensity to drive antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Most patients with penicillin allergy records do not have a true allergy when they are tested by a specialist, so many patients are denied the best an...