Skin hypersensitivity
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Used for
dermatitis medicamentosa, skin allergy
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Broader Terms
hypersensitivity, skin disorder
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Related Terms
atopic dermatitis, contact dermatitis, eczema
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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.
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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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