Infectious mononucleosis in clinical practice

Clinical and paraclinical aspects of infectious mononucleosis

Results The incidence of infectious mononucleosis was highest in the age group 15 to 24. The age of the patient has a profound influence on the clinical expression of EBV infection. The incidence of EBV infection is higher in urban environment, where the interhuman contact is closer, and also the addressability to health-care services is better and the laboratory diagnosis is more easily availa...

Glandular fever (infectious mononucleosis).

Glandular Fever: Infectious Mononucleosis

Granulocyte changes in infectious mononucleosis.

Various changes in the granulocytes have been investigated in a large series of patients with infectious mononucleosis. A high proportion of cases regularly show a neutropenia with a shift to the left during the first three to four weeks of the disease; these changes, though transient, may be profound. The band cells present during the acute phase of the disease also show certain alterations in...

Chronic infectious mononucleosis.

I N A GROUP of 2.06 patients who had infectious mononucleosis, had some symptoms which persisted for from three months to at least four years or longer. The syndrome included ease of fatigue, exhaustion, aching of the legs, weakness, depression, afternoon elevation of temperature (99.8 to 101 F.), moderate splenomegaly, low blood pressure, low blood sugar, often low specific gravity of the urin...