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Affiliations

• ¹ Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Department of Medicine, McGill University Health Centre (MUHC), McGill University, Montreal, Canada; Division of Clinical Immunology and Allergy, Department of Medicine, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland; The Research Institute of McGill University Health Centre, McGill University, Montreal, Canada. Electronic address: florian.stehlin@mail.mcgill.ca.
• ² Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Department of Medicine, McGill University Health Centre (MUHC), McGill University, Montreal, Canada; The Research Institute of McGill University Health Centre, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
• ³ Pharmacy Department, Montreal General Hospital, Montreal, Canada.
• ⁴ Department of Diagnostic Radiology, McGill University Health Centre (MUHC), McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
• ⁵ Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Department of Medicine, McGill University Health Centre (MUHC), McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
• ⁶ Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Department of Medicine, McGill University Health Centre (MUHC), McGill University, Montreal, Canada; Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Department of Paediatrics, Central Second Health Cluster, Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; College of Medicine, Princess Noura Bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
• ⁷ Center for Drug Safety and Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Centre, Nashville, USA; Institute for Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia.
• ⁸ Center for Antibiotic Allergy and Research, Department of Infectious Diseases, Austin Health, Heidelberg, Australia; The National Centre for Infections in Cancer, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Parkville, Australia; Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Melbourne, At the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Victoria, Australia.
• ⁹ Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Department of Medicine, McGill University Health Centre (MUHC), McGill University, Montreal, Canada; The Research Institute of McGill University Health Centre, McGill University, Montreal, Canada; Center for Antibiotic Allergy and Research, Department of Infectious Diseases, Austin Health, Heidelberg, Australia; Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Melbourne, At the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Victoria, Australia.