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Joint Task Force on Practice Parameters; American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology; American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology; Joint Council of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology.

Abrams EM, Wakeman A, Gerstner TV, Warrington RJ, Singer AG.

Prevalence of beta-lactam allergy: A retrospective chart review of drug allergy assessment in a predominantly pediatric population. Allergy Asthma Clin Immunol 2016;12:59 Gomes ER, Brokow K, Kuyucu S, et al.

Drug hypersensitivity in children: Report from the pediatric task force of the EAACI Drug Allergy Interest Group. Allergy 2016;71(2):149-61 Mill C, Primeau MN, Medoff E, et al. Assessing the diagnostic properties of a graded oral provocation challenge for the diagnosis of immediate and nonimmediate reactions to amoxicillin in children. Natural evolution of skin test sensitivity in patients allergic to beta-lactam antibiotics.

A review of evidence supporting the American Academy of Pediatrics recommendation for prescribing cephalosporin antibiotics for penicillin-allergic patients. Health care use and serious infection prevalence associated with beta-lactam “allergy” in hospitalized patients: A cohort study. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2014;133:790e796 Trubiano JA, Thursky KA, Stewardson AJ, et al.

Impact of an integrated antibiotic allergy testing program on antimicrobial stewardship: a multi-center evaluation.

Government of

Quebec

Avis sur la standardisation des pratiques relatives aux allergies aux beta-lactamines.

June 2017: https://www.inesss.qc.ca/nc/en/publications/publications/publication/avis-sur-la-standardisation-des-pratiques-relatives-aux-allergies-aux-beta-lactamines-modification.html (Accessed August 15, 2019).

Disclaimer: The recommendations in this position statement do not indicate an exclusive course of treatment or procedure to be followed. Variations, taking into account individual circumstances, may be appropriate.

Internet addresses are current at time of publication.

Newest Approaches to Treatment of Pelvic Inflammatory Disease: A Review of Recent Randomized Clinical Trials. Ness, Newest Approaches to Treatment of Pelvic Inflammatory Disease: A Review of Recent Randomized Clinical Trials, Clinical Infectious Diseases , Volume 44, Issue 7, 1 April 2007, Pages 953–960, https://doi.org/10.1086/512191.

Treatment of pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) should provide high rates of clinical and microbiological cure for a range of pathogens and should ultimately prevent reproductive morbidity.

Between 1992 and 2006, 5 randomized clinical trials of moxifloxacin (1 trial), ofloxacin (1 trial), clindamycin-ciprofloxacin (1 trial), and azithromycin (2 trials) treatment among women with mild to moderate PID were found to have clinical cure rates of 90%–97%. Trials of ofloxacin and clindamycin-ciprofloxacin reported rates of cure of Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Chlamydia trachomatis infection of 100%, although microbiological cure data for other pathogens were not presented. One azithromycin trial reported a 98% eradication of C.

Moxifloxacin exhibited high eradication rates for N. hominis, Mycobacterium genitalium , and gram-negative anaerobes.

Clinical

cure

Although a handful of studies have shown that monotherapies for PID

achieve

Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), the infection and inflammation of a woman's upper genital tract, is a frequent cause of infertility, ectopic pregnancy, and chronic pelvic pain among women of childbearing age [ 1]. Surveillance data are sparse but suggest that PID is diagnosed in general practice in 1.7% of women aged 16–46 years in the United Kingdom annually and in ?8% of US women and 15% of Swedish women in their lifetime, with >1 million US women treated annually [ 2–6].

PID is thought to occur when microorganisms, frequently Chlamydia trachomatis or Neisseria gonorrhoeae , ascend from the lower genital tract and infect the uterus, fallopian tubes, and ovaries [ 7]. However, PID has a multimicrobial etiology, and up to 70% of cases are nongonococcal and nonchlamydial.

Anaerobic gram-negative rods, Mycoplasma genitalium , and bacterial vaginosis are also associated with PID [ 8–12]. Because of its polymicrobial nature, PID is treated with antibiotics covering a broad spectrum of pathogens.

Guidelines of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommend outpatient treatment of PID with

ofloxacin

primarily

following

A fifth inpatient regimen, which included metronidazole and doxycycline, was found to have much lower rates of clinical and microbiological cure (75% and 71%, respectively) [ 14]. These low efficacy rates are likely attributable to the poor coverage of this latter combination against N.

One outpatient regimen (cefoxitin, probenecid, and doxycycline) was included in this meta-analysis and was found to have a pooled clinical cure rate of 95% and a microbiological cure rate of 91% [ 14].

Since the publication of this meta-analysis, additional studies of PID treatment have been conducted, including several new monotherapies. Here, we summarize and evaluate these recent randomized clinical trials. 2006 US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention–recommended outpatient regimens for the treatment of pelvic inflammatory disease.

2006 US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention–recommended outpatient regimens for the treatment of pelvic inflammatory disease.

Two nonrandomized studies of laparoscopically confirmed salpingitis similarly support the efficacy of ofloxacin for the treatment of gonococcal and chlamydial PID by demonstrating that ofloxacin, administered every 12 h intravenously followed by a 10- to 14-day oral regimen, was associated with a gonococcal cure rate of 100% [ 23, 24], a chlamydial cure rate of almost 100% [ 23, 24], and a clinical cure rate of 98% [ 24].