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Infectious Mononucleosis

Novel immunoassay provides accurate measure of Epstein-Barr virus load

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, May 31st, 2005

A novel immunoassay provides a highly accurate measure of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) load in pediatric patients with suspected infectious mononucleosis.

"Infectious mononucleosis is the common clinical manifestation" of primary EBV infection "in young children," physicians in China explained.

In their study, Z.R. Feng and coauthors at Peking University First Hospital "evaluated a chemiluminescent immunoassay method for the determination of serum anti-viral capsid antigen IgM antibody and its clinical value in the diagnosis of infectious mononucleosis."

"Concentrations of the antibody in serum samples from 187 children measured by...

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