Serum sickness: Type of allergic reaction to certain medications or serums. More detailed information about the symptoms, causes, and treatments of Serum sickness is available below.
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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. - (Source - Diseases Database)
A delayed allergic reaction to the injection of an antiserum caused by an antibody reaction to an antigen in the donor serum - (Source - WordNet 2.1)
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