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Serum Sickness-Like Reactions After Pneumococcal Vaccination

Serum sickness or serum sickness-like reactions (SSLRs) constitute a rare complication that manifests in individuals after receiving vaccinations. In this case report, we present a patient with typical symptoms of SSLRs after pneumococcal vaccination. The time course of this disease and our diagnost...

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Autores principales: Chung, Bing-Syuan, Liu, Wei-Ting, Chen, Po-Wei
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8502487/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34660076
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.17877
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author Chung, Bing-Syuan
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description Serum sickness or serum sickness-like reactions (SSLRs) constitute a rare complication that manifests in individuals after receiving vaccinations. In this case report, we present a patient with typical symptoms of SSLRs after pneumococcal vaccination. The time course of this disease and our diagnostic process are documented in detail. The literature related to serum sickness and SSLRs is also reviewed.
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spelling pubmed-85024872021-10-15 Serum Sickness-Like Reactions After Pneumococcal Vaccination Chung, Bing-Syuan Liu, Wei-Ting Chen, Po-Wei Cureus Dermatology Serum sickness or serum sickness-like reactions (SSLRs) constitute a rare complication that manifests in individuals after receiving vaccinations. In this case report, we present a patient with typical symptoms of SSLRs after pneumococcal vaccination. The time course of this disease and our diagnostic process are documented in detail. The literature related to serum sickness and SSLRs is also reviewed. Cureus 2021-09-10 /pmc/articles/PMC8502487/ /pubmed/34660076 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.17877 Text en Copyright © 2021, Chung et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Dermatology
Chung, Bing-Syuan
Liu, Wei-Ting
Chen, Po-Wei
Serum Sickness-Like Reactions After Pneumococcal Vaccination
title Serum Sickness-Like Reactions After Pneumococcal Vaccination
title_full Serum Sickness-Like Reactions After Pneumococcal Vaccination
title_fullStr Serum Sickness-Like Reactions After Pneumococcal Vaccination
title_full_unstemmed Serum Sickness-Like Reactions After Pneumococcal Vaccination
title_short Serum Sickness-Like Reactions After Pneumococcal Vaccination
title_sort serum sickness-like reactions after pneumococcal vaccination
topic Dermatology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8502487/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34660076
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.17877
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