Ritter J, Oehme J. [Immunological cell surface markers in infectious mononucleosis (author's transl)].
KLINISCHE WOCHENSCHRIFT 1976;
54:647-8. [PMID:
181637 DOI:
10.1007/bf01469032]
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Abstract
Using a direct immunofluorescence technique and a spontaneous rosette formation with sheep red blood cells it could be demonstrated that the large mononuclear cells in infectious mononucleosis consisted mainly of T-lymphocytes. It is likely that infectious mononucleosis represents a primary B-lymphcoyte infection with the Epstein-Barr virus like in the Burkitt lymphoma. In contrast to this malignant lymphoma, interaction in infectious mononucleosis leads to a secondary T-lymphocyte proliferation.
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