Significant liver injury with dual positive IgM antibody to Epstein-Barr virus and cytomegalovirus as a puzzling initial manifestation of infectious mononucleosis

Internal Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 340-343

  Zenda, Takahiro ^a   Itoh, Yuji ^a   Takayama, Yoshihiro ^a   Masunaga, Takaharu ^a   Asaka, Satoshi ^a   Oiwake, Hisanori ^a   Shinozaki, Kimihide ^a   Takeda, Ryoyu ^a  

^a KKR Hokuriku Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Abdominal lymphadenopathy; Cross reaction; False positive IgM to cytomegalovirus; Liver injury associated with infectious mononucleosis; Multi positive viral serologies; Older patient of infectious mononucleosis

Indexed keywords

CYTOMEGALOVIRUS ANTIBODY; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; LIVER ENZYME; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; ECHOGRAPHY; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; FEVER; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; INFECTIOUS MONONUCLEOSIS; LABORATORY TEST; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LIVER INJURY; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALAISE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHARYNGITIS; SEROCONVERSION; SPLENOMEGALY; TONSILLITIS; VIRUS CULTURE; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS INACTIVATION;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; HERPESVIRUS 4, HUMAN; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; INFECTIOUS MONONUCLEOSIS; LIVER DISEASES; MALE;

EID: 2542502639     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.43.340     Document Type: Article

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