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  • Title: Basic aspects related to penicillin-allergy skin testing: on the variability of the hapten-paratope interaction.
    Author: Bondaruk J, Curcio-Vonlanthen V, Schneider CH.
    Journal: Allergy; 1995 Aug; 50(8):671-6. PubMed ID: 7503403.
    Abstract:
    Ampicillin and benzylpenicillin conjugated to human serum albumin were used as immunogens in order to obtain antihaptenic IgG responses in outbred guinea pigs according to different schedules, all involving complete Freund's adjuvant. The individual responses were characterized by ELISA and by ELISA inhibition using ampicillin, benzylpenicillin, and carbenicillin peptidic conjugates for coating and for inhibition. In several instances, drastically reduced cross-reactivity and even its absence were observed, although the penicillin antigens differ only in the side-chain. The notion that the invariantly present thiazolidine ring will always provide significant binding to antibodies against all penicillins differing only in the side-chain has to be dropped. The experiments were performed in relation to newer findings of clinical penicillin-allergy skin testing which suggest that benzylpenicillin-based reagents alone are not able to detect or predict all reactions against semisynthetic penicillins. The experimental evidence here obtained corroborates this conclusion.
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