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Drug Hypersensitivity

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Definition: Immunologically mediated adverse reactions to medicinal substances used legally or illegally.  use in conventional sense and not for allergy to every category D term; allergy to non-drug chemical substance=substance /ad eff + HYPERSENSITIVITY or its specifics /etiol; manual 23.24+   
Examples Asthma, Aspirin-Induced; Drug Eruptions 		Other names Hypersensitivity, Drug; Allergy, Drug; Hypersensitivities, Drug; Drug Hypersensitivities; Drug Allergies; Drug Allergy; Allergies, Drug
 
SubstanceCAS Registry & nameCategoriesSource
Thiopurine S methyltranferase deficiency  0   *Drug Hypersensitivity *Purine-Pyrimidine Metabolism, Inborn Errors. Clin Pharm Ther 1989; 46:149
Pseudocholinesterase deficiency  0   *Drug Hypersensitivity Cholinesterases/deficiency.

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