A nurse recalls that an example of an immune-complex-mediated disease is:
a. bronchial asthma.
b. contact dermatitis.
c. serum sickness.
d. rheumatoid arthritis.
ANS: C
Immune-complex disease can be a systemic reaction, such as serum sickness, and related to type III reactions. Bronchial asthma is not an immune-complex-mediated disease and is related to type I reactions. Neither contact dermatitis nor rheumatoid arthritis is related to type III reactions.
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