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Primary care physicians deal with allergic conditions far more often than they may suspect. Asthma, allergic rhinitis, and atopic dermatitis are some of the most common examples of these immunological diseases. On a daily basis, physicians obtain an allergy history before prescribing any antibiotic because of the high incidence of drug reactions in the population, illustrating one example of the importance of these disorders in clinical medicine.
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Moss, M.H., Horwitz, R.J., Lemanske, R.F. (2000). Allergic Disease. In: Lieberman, P., Anderson, J.A. (eds) Allergic Diseases. Current Clinical Practice. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-007-0_1
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