The National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia has been con cerned over the legal problems of penicillin hypersensitivity, now believed to be the most common form of drug reaction. They accordingly arranged for the preparation of the two articles abstracted below, for the guidance of both the legal and the medi cal professions.
The presentation of these abstracts is followed by an independently written "Com mentary" on the same subject by two experienced American pediatric allergists.
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