Glandular Fever: A Field Study

A Case of Glandular Fever

an infectious disease of children, characterised by swelling and tenderness of the lymph-glands of the neck, particularly those behind the sterno-cleido-mastoid muscle. The fever is of short duration but the enlargement of the glands persists from ten days to three weeks. In many cases the post-cervical, inguinal and axillary glands are enlarged. As this sort of fever is rarely met with in prac...

Glandular fever (infectious mononucleosis).

Glandular Fever: Infectious Mononucleosis

Seronegative glandular fever.

Seven sporadic cases of ;seronegative glandular fever' have been examined in detail; five of the patients were adults aged more than 30, two were children. None showed evidence of ;incomplete' or heat-labile sheep cell agglutinins, but in three very weak, though otherwise typical, glandular fever agglutinins were detected. Three of the other four showed evidence of certain infections, but these...

Glandular Fever: Infectious Mononucleosis