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  2. Serum sickness - Wikipedia

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    Serum sickness in humans is a reaction to proteins in antiserum derived from a non-human animal source, occurring 5–10 days after exposure. Symptoms often include a rash, joint pain, fever, and lymphadenopathy. It is a type of hypersensitivity, specifically immune complex hypersensitivity .

  3. Lymphangitis - Wikipedia

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    The lymph nodes are found in proximity to unique white blood cells that engulf or metabolize pathogens (bacteria and viruses) and defective or cancerous cells, preventing infections and malignant cancer cells from spreading. [5] Infection spreads out of the wound site to enter the lymphatic system. The wound may be small or it may be an abscess ...

  4. Lymphadenopathy - Wikipedia

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    However, inguinal lymph nodes of up to 15 mm and cervical lymph nodes of up to 20 mm are generally normal in children up to age 8–12. [ 38 ] Lymphadenopathy of more than 1.5–2 cm increases the risk of cancer or granulomatous disease as the cause rather than only inflammation or infection .

  5. Pharyngitis - Wikipedia

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    Swollen and tender cervical lymph nodes; Temperature more than 38.0 °C (100.4 °F) Tonsillar exudate or swelling; Age less than 15 (a point is subtracted if age is more than 44) The Infectious Disease Society of America recommends against empirical treatment and considers antibiotics only appropriate following positive testing. [29]

  6. Tonsillitis - Wikipedia

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    [1] [14] [15] Their tonsils – and often the back of the throat – appear red and swollen, and sometimes give off a white discharge. [1] [15] [16] Some also have tender swelling of the cervical lymph nodes. [1] [15] Many viral infections that cause tonsillitis will also cause cough, runny nose, hoarse voice, or blistering in the mouth or ...

  7. Mycobacterial cervical lymphadenitis - Wikipedia

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    The royal touch and surgical removal were not the only methods of healing employed: Scrophularia nodosa (common name: Figwort), which has nodular roots that resemble the swollen lymph nodes of the affected, was thought to be useful in treating the disease, according to the doctrine of signatures – the plant being hung around the neck of the ...

  8. Tuberculous lymphadenitis - Wikipedia

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    Mycobacterium tuberculosis is the most common cause of both pulmonary tuberculosis and tuberculous lymphadenitis. [1] [6] Historically, transmission of Mycobacterium bovis from dairy consumption was another frequent cause of tuberculous lymphadenitis, but incidence has drastically decreased in developed countries since the advent of pasteurization and other efforts to prevent bovine ...

  9. Kawasaki disease - Wikipedia

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    Affected lymph nodes are painless or minimally painful, nonfluctuant, and nonsuppurative; erythema of the neighboring skin may occur. [16] Children with fever and neck adenitis who do not respond to antibiotics should have Kawasaki disease considered as part of the differential diagnoses .