By COMMANDER HAROLD A. LYONS (MC) USN, AND L’r. (JG) J. GRANT HARRISON (MC) USN T HE DEMONSTRATION in 1932. by Paul and Bunnell’ that the blood serum of patients with the sporadic form of infectious mononucleosis contained antibodies against sheep erthrocytes in concentrations far above a normal titer was an important advance in the study and diagnosis of this disease. It gave a good test for t...

Infectious mononucleosis should be suspected in patients 10 to 30 years of age who present with sore throat and significant fatigue, palatal petechiae, posterior cervical or auricular adenopathy, marked adenopathy, or inguinal adenopathy. An atypical lymphocytosis of at least 20 percent or atypical lymphocytosis of at least 10 percent plus lymphocytosis of at least 50 percent strongly supports ...

Abnormal hepatic function is common in infectious mononucleosis (IM). However, it remains unknown why increased transferase levels are more common than bilirubin abnormalities in IM. The current study aimed to investigate these associations in the Chinese population. A total of 95 patients with IM (47 males and 48 females) were enrolled in the current study, as well as 95 healthy controls. Pati...