Type III – Serum Sickness
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self-limiting systemic immune complex disease affecting:
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lymph nodes
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joints
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Caused by passive immunization
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administration of pre-formed antibodies
(gammaglobulin shots) formed in horses
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Mechanism:
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proteins from horse serum causes host to produce
antibodies that complexed with horse proteins
forming immune complexes