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The epidemiology of infectious mononucleosis in Northern Scotland: a decreasing incidence and winter peak

BACKGROUND: Infection with Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is almost ubiquitous in humans and generally occurs at two ages: infantile, which is usually asymptomatic and associated with poorer socioeconomic conditions, and adolescent, which causes infectious mononucleosis (IM) in ~25% cases. The determinant...

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Autores principales: Visser, Elizabeth, Milne, Denis, Collacott, Ian, McLernon, David, Counsell, Carl, Vickers, Mark
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3999936/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24650116
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-14-151