 Serum Sickness
"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 C25.100.468.380.800
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| Concept/Terms |
Serum Sickness- Serum Sickness
- Serum Sicknesses
- Sickness, Serum
- Sicknesses, Serum
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Serum Sickness" by people in this website by year, and whether "Serum Sickness" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1999 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2004 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Serum Sickness" by people in Profiles.
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Wolf AB, Ryerson LZ, Pandey K, McGettigan BM, Vollmer T, Corboy JR, Alvarez E. Rituximab-induced serum sickness in multiple sclerosis patients. Mult Scler Relat Disord. 2019 Nov; 36:101402.
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Schaeffer TH, Khatri V, Reifler LM, Lavonas EJ. Incidence of immediate hypersensitivity reaction and serum sickness following administration of Crotalidae polyvalent immune Fab antivenom: a meta-analysis. Acad Emerg Med. 2012 Feb; 19(2):121-31.
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Waibel KH, Katial RK. Serum sickness-like reaction and bupropion. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2004 May; 43(5):509.
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Elkayam O, Yaron M, Caspi D. Minocycline-induced autoimmune syndromes: an overview. Semin Arthritis Rheum. 1999 Jun; 28(6):392-7.
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Henson PM, Cochrane CG. Acute immune complex disease in rabbits. The role of complement and of a leukocyte-dependent release of vasoactive amines from platelets. J Exp Med. 1971 Mar 01; 133(3):554-71.
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