RT Book, Section
A1 Cohen, Jeffrey I.
A2 Kasper, Dennis L.
A2 Fauci, Anthony S.
SR Print(0)
ID 1141410773
T1 EPSTEIN-BARR VIRUS INFECTIONS, INCLUDING INFECTIOUS MONONUCLEOSIS
T2 Harrison's Infectious Diseases, 3e
YR 2017
FD 2017
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781259835971
LK accessbiomedicalscience.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1141410773
RD 2024/04/24
AB Epstein-Barr  virus  (EBV)  is  the  cause  of  heterophile-positive  infectious  mononucleosis  (IM),  which  is  characterized  by  fever,  sore  throat,  lymphadenopathy,  and  atypical  lymphocytosis.  EBV  is  also  associated  with  several  tumors,  including  nasopharyngeal  and  gastric  carcinoma,  Burkitt’s  lymphoma,  Hodgkin’s  disease,  and  (in  patients  with  immunodeficiencies)  B  cell  lymphoma.  The  virus  is  a  member  of  the  family  Herpesviridae.  The  two  types  of  EBV  that  are  widely  prevalent  in  nature  are  not  distinguishable  by  conventional  serologic  tests.