Serum Sickness

**Definition:** 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.

**Tree numbers:** - C17.800.174.600.800 - C25.100.468.380.800