History of infectious mononucleosis (mono)?!
Question: Where can I find the history of this? I can not find it anywhere. Someone please help me. Thanks.
Answers: Where can I find the history of this? I can not find it anywhere. Someone please help me. Thanks.
The history of how this was discovered? well Dr's Sprunt and Evans first described infectious mononucleosis in the Johns Hopkins Medical Bulletin in 1920.
These authors described the clinical characteristics of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infectious mononucleosis, and, at the time, their paper was entitled "Mononuclear leukocytosis in reaction to acute infection (infectious mononucleosis)," because the causative organism, EBV, had yet to be described.
Since the 1800s, infectious mononucleosis has been recognized as a clinical syndrome consisting of fever, pharyngitis, and adenopathy. The term glandular fever was first used in 1889 by German physicians and was termed Drusenfieber. The association between infectious mononucleosis and EBV was described in the late 1960s.
Also cytomegalovirus can cause mono.
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