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. 1970 Jun 6;102(12):1260–1263.

Serological Response of the EBV Antibodies in Pediatric Cases of Infectious Mononucleosis and in Their Contacts

J Joncas, C Mitnyan
PMCID: PMC1930286  PMID: 4315636

Abstract

The EBV antibodies were measured in 378 sera from a group of 129 pediatric and older cases of infectious mononucleosis and from 117 family and social contacts. Cases of infectious mononucleosis with only one exception were EBV seropositive in acute and/or convalescent sera. Fourteen cases, however, from whom no convalescent serum was available were EBV seronegative. A rise in EBV antibodies of two dilutions or more was demonstrated in 15 of the 129 cases. The prevalence of these antibodies in contacts reached 50 to 70% in each of four age groups. A significant antibody rise was encountered in only four cases, one of whom was found to have infectious mononucleosis simultaneously with the index case and one after an interdisease period of 10 months. The infectivity of the EB virus (and of infectious mononucleosis if causally related) and its horizontal transmission seem to be as low in nature as they appear to be experimentally in the laboratory.

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