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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.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Serum Sickness" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Serum Sickness" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 12 publications over 8 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2020
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Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.