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Skin and Connective Tissue Diseases > Skin Diseases > Dermatitis > Drug Eruptions > Serum Sickness
Chemically-Induced Disorders > Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions > Drug Hypersensitivity > Drug Eruptions > Serum Sickness

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Serum Sickness  

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  • Immune complex disease caused by the administration of foreign serum or serum proteins and characterized by fever, lymphadenopathy, arthralgia, and urticaria. When they are complexed to protein carriers, some drugs can also cause serum sickness when they act as haptens inducing antibody responses.

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D012713

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