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Hypersensitivity (also called hypersensitivity reaction or intolerance) refers to undesirable reactions produced by the normal immune system including allergies and autoimmunity. These reactions may be damaging uncomfortable or occasionally fatal. Hypersensitivity reactions require a pre-sensitized (immune) state of the host. The four-group classification was expounded by P. G. H. Gell and Robin Coombs in 1963.