INFECTIOUS mononucleosis, or glandular fever, was first described in 1889 by Pfeiffer. 1 The earliest report on the subject in this country was that by West 2 in 1896. The hematologic aspects of ...
This apparent change from an epidemic to a sporadic or endemic disease suggests either that the contagiousness of infectious mononucleosis as now encountered is low or that the disease may occur ...
Infectious mononucleosis (IM, mono), also known as glandular fever, is an infection usually caused by the Epstein–Barr virus (EBV). Most people are infected by the virus as children, when the disease ...
By noon, he lay quietly, shivering a bit, wondering what had brought him to a bad in Stillman. . . Infectious mononucleosis is the most common of the prolonged illnesses that attack the Harvard ...
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It accounts for more than 90% of cases of infectious mononucleosis, a contagious infection known as mono, which can cause fever, sore throat and chronic fatigue. Both the virus and mono are ...
Such a spike would not be without reason. Approximately 95 percent of adults in the United States have been infected with the Epstein-Barr virus, a highly contagious herpes virus that causes ...