Incorrect Penicillin Allergy

BOSTON — Low-risk patients with syphilis and a penicillin allergy label should be delabeled to avoid treatment failure, according to a poster presented at the American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology Annual Scientific Meeting.

Nonallergy health care professionals can safely perform direct oral penicillin challenges to delabel low-risk patients, according to a study published in Journal of Infection.