Infectious mononucleosis allergy and clinical immunology. Infectious mononucleosis disease fact sheet spanish. Mononucleosis infecciosa infectious mononucleosis dra. Infectious mononucleosis is the name coined by sprunt and evans in 1920 1 for an acute infectious disease consisting of fever, cervical lymphadenopathy and pharyngitis accompanied by atypical large peripheral blood lymphocytes. Most people are infected by the virus as children, when the disease produces few or no symptoms. Infectious mononucleosis im is a widely spread systemic viral disease caused in 90% of cases by the epsteinbarr virus evb and approximately 95% of the adult population is ebvseropositive. Treatment is symptomatic and there is not a specific antiviral medicine. Infectious mononucleosis mono is caused by an epsteinbarr virus ebv infection. Causes of infectious mononucleosis infectious mononucleosis is transmitted by exposure to saliva, so it can be spread by kissing, by sharing glasses or. Most americans have had an ebv infection by age 40 years.
Pdf infectious mononucleosis syndrome, characterized in typical cases by fever, sore throat, tonsillar exudates, cervical adenopathies and atypical. Pattisons editorial prompts us to report recent difficulties that we encountered. The epidemiology of infectious mononucleosis in northern scotland. It can be caused by a number of pathogens, but this chapter only discusses infectious mononucleosis due to primary epsteinbarr virus ebv infection. We now know that the characteristic atypical lymphocytes, carefully described morphologically by downey and. Characteristically it consists of fever, lymphadenopaty and acute pharyingitis and ocasionally it will also present. Im includes the other causes of mononucleosis syndrome. The epidemiology of infectious mononucleosis in northern.
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