Smooth Muscle Autoantibodies in Infectious Mononucleosis

Smooth muscle autoantibodies in infectious mononucleosis.

Smooth muscle antibodies (S.M.A.) were found in the sera of 81% of 126 patients over 10 years old with seropositive infectious mononucleosis tested within one month of onset. In 27 patients presenting clinically with infectious mononucleosis but having negative Paul-Bunnell tests the incidence of S.M.A. was 44%. In children 10 years of age or less in these two categories S.M.A. were present in ...

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...