Skin hypersensitivity

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Contents

Used for

dermatitis medicamentosa, skin allergy

Broader Terms

hypersensitivity, skin disorder

Related Terms

atopic dermatitis, contact dermatitis, eczema

Scope Note

state of altered reactivity in which the body reacts with an exaggerated or inappropriate immune response to a chemical substance having the properties of an antigen or hapten that is in contact with the skin, the resulting skin condition being allergic contact dermatitis.

Facts (generated by robot; please edit if you find it inaccurate)

  • Skin hypersensitivity is seen in most Behcet patients with pus and redness of the skin developing within 24 hours at the site of a pinprick into sterile skin.
  • Mackaness (48) pointed out the fallacy in many of these arguments, showing that tuberculin skin hypersensitivity is a poor and unreliable indicator of the presence of a protective cell-mediated immunity within the lungs and spleen of the immunized host.
  • The waiver rationale for skin hypersensitivity is based on publically available information (Ref.
  • quantities indicate that general skin hypersensitivity is established at this time.
  • Allergic Contact Dermatitis Allergic Contact Dermatitis develops after repeated allergen exposure and is a T cell mediated delayed skin hypersensitivity to common metals, dyes, rubber products and cosmetics.
  • Serum IgE from a horse of the Baker Institute herd that developed a recurrent skin hypersensitivity during past summers, and from a healthy control animal, will be separated from IgG isotypes by an affinity purification method we established previously (Wagner et al.
  • The currently best characterized disease regarding etiology and pathogeneses is a skin hypersensitivity, called summer eczema (Figure 1).
  • Skin hypersensitivity to streptococcal antigens and the induction of systemic symptoms by the antigens in Behcet's disease--a multicenter study.
  • We were unable to detect the presence of antibodies or skin hypersensitivity to any of the antibiotics tested.

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