"Serum Sickness" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
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.
Descriptor ID |
D012713
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MeSH Number(s) |
C17.800.174.600.800 C20.543.206.380.800 C20.543.520.770 C25.723.276.505.800
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Concept/Terms |
Serum Sickness- Serum Sickness
- Serum Sicknesses
- Sickness, Serum
- Sicknesses, Serum
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2020 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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