Glandular Fever Encephalitis

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

Steroid therapy in glandular fever.

Glandular fever or infectious mononucleosis is a disease of undetermined aetiology which may present variously. The literature is replete with accounts of its complications. In spite of the usually benign course, there remains a small mortality rate and it is therefore not surprising that adrenal corticosteroid treatment has been used in the severest forms of the illness. Doran et al.3 describe...