Acute Epstein-Barr virus infection in two elderly individuals

Age and Ageing

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 196-198

  Dourakis, Spyros P ^a   Alexopoulou, Alexandra ^a   Stamoulis, Nikolas ^a   Foutris, Apostolos ^a   Pandelidaki, Helen ^a   Archimandritis, Athanasios J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Acute EBV infection; Cold agglutinin haemolytic anaemia; Elderly; Elderly individuals

Indexed keywords

COLD AGGLUTININ; FOLIC ACID; HETEROPHILE ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; VIRUS CAPSID ANTIGEN;

AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIZZINESS; ELDERLY CARE; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; ERYTHROCYTE CONCENTRATE; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FALLING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPHADENOPATHY; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; NONHUMAN; PARAAORTIC LYMPH NODE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETICULOCYTE COUNT; VIRUS INFECTION;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; ANEMIA, HEMOLYTIC, AUTOIMMUNE; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EPSTEIN-BARR VIRUS INFECTIONS; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HERPESVIRUS 4, HUMAN; HUMANS; RETICULOCYTE COUNT; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 4; MIRIDAE;

EID: 33644976779     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: 14682834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afj021     Document Type: Article

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