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serum sickness [1 record]

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Record 1 2022-03-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Symptoms (Medicine)
  • Immunology
DEF

A group of symptoms caused by a delayed immune response to certain medications or antiserum ...

CONT

Serum sickness is a hypersensitivity reaction similar to allergy. The immune system misidentifies a protein in antiserum as a potentially harmful substance (antigen), and it develops an immune response against the antiserum.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Symptômes (Médecine)
  • Immunologie
CONT

La maladie sérique est consécutive à l'injection de sérum ou, plus rarement, à la prise d'antibiotiques [...], d'anti-inflammatoires, de barbituriques ou d'hormones [...] Elle est due à la sécrétion, par le système immunitaire du malade, d'anticorps dirigés contre les substances sériques ou médicamenteuses, étrangères à l'organisme [...]

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Síntomas (Medicina)
  • Inmunología
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