Glossary of HIV/AIDS Terms
This glossary contains 1,600 terms and is maintained by the editors of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation's Bulletin of Experimental Treatments for AIDS.
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Stevens-Johnson syndrome: a severe form of erythema multiforme; an uncommon, potentially life-threatening hypersensitivity reaction (typically caused by a drug or by certain infections) characterized by fever and flu-like symptoms followed by a severe, blistering rash on the skin and mucous membranes, and sometimes also tissue necrosis, eye lesions, and/or internal organ damage. See also toxic epidermal necrolysis.