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Adult-onset Still’s disease is a systemic inflammatory disease. The classic presentation is the triad of persistent high spiking fever joint pain and a distinctive salmon-colored rash. Serum ferritin a protein that binds iron is elevated. There are no characteristic antibodies in the blood. The symptoms are similar to other inflammatory diseases and to autoimmune diseases which do have characteristic antibodies which must be ruled out with tests for those antibodies.