Severe serum sickness after H1N1 influenza vaccination

American Journal of the Medical Sciences

Volumn 345, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 412-413

  Bonds, Rana S ^a   Kelly, Brent C ^a  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Influenza; Serum sickness; Vaccination; Vaccine reaction

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C4; CREATININE; DIPHENHYDRAMINE; FIBRIN DEGRADATION PRODUCT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; INFLUENZA VACCINE; NITROGEN; PREDNISONE; UREA;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ADULT; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY COMPLEX; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BINDING ASSAY; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; BREATHING RATE; CAPILLARITIS; CASE REPORT; COMPLEMENT BLOOD LEVEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG ERUPTION; DYSPNEA; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FACE EDEMA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOELECTROPHORESIS; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLUENZA A (H1N1); INFLUENZA VACCINATION; KIDNEY FAILURE; LEG EDEMA; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALE; PLASMACYTOSIS; PROTEINURIA; RASH; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; SERUM SICKNESS; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN BLEEDING; SPLENOMEGALY; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; URINALYSIS; URTICARIA;

EID: 84876843956     PISSN: 00029629     EISSN: 15382990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MAJ.0b013e318273de7f     Document Type: Article

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