What test is the best for diagnosing infectious mononucleosis?

Journal of Family Practice

Volumn 55, Issue 9, 2006, Pages

  Bell, Amy Trelease ^a   Fortune, Barbara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HETEROPHILE ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; VIRUS ANTIBODY; VIRUS DNA; CAPSID PROTEIN; EPITOPE; EPSTEIN BARR VIRAL CAPSID ANTIGEN; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS ANTIGEN; EPSTEIN-BARR VIRAL CAPSID ANTIGEN; VIRUS ANTIGEN;

ADULT; ANTIBODY DETECTION; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; INFECTIOUS MONONUCLEOSIS; LATEX AGGLUTINATION TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; SEROLOGY; VIRUS DETECTION; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BLOOD; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT;

ANTIBODIES, HETEROPHILE; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIGENS, VIRAL; CAPSID PROTEINS; DNA, VIRAL; EPITOPES; EPSTEIN-BARR VIRUS NUCLEAR ANTIGENS; HERPESVIRUS 4, HUMAN; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS MONONUCLEOSIS; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 33748805222     PISSN: 00943509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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