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Immune-Complex Diseases

Formation of circulating immune complexes contributes to the pathogenesis of a number of conditions other than serum sickness.

Immune-Complex Diseases

Formation of circulating immune complexes contributes to the pathogenesis of a number of conditions other than serum sickness. These include the following:

1.Autoimmune diseases

·           Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)

·           Rheumatoid arthritis

2.Drug reactions

·           Allergies to penicillin and sulfonamides

3.Infectious diseases

·           Poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis

·           Meningitis

·           Hepatitis

·           Infectious mononucleosis

·           Malaria

·           Trypanosomiasis


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