BLOOD
- 1 June 1942
- journal article
- review article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of internal medicine (1908)
- Vol. 69 (6) , 1051-1126
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archinte.1942.00200180122010
Abstract
INFECTIOUS MONONUCLEOSIS Since the observation of Murray, Webb and Swann in 1926 that organisms of the genus Listerella (Bacterium monocytogenes) could produce mononucleosis in rabbits, there has been speculation as to their possible etiologic relation to infectious mononucleosis in human beings. The evidence as to the importance of this organism in relation to the disease is conflicting. This is because in only a small proportion of cases can it be cultivated from the blood and the spinal fluid and because it has not been demonstrated that antibodies against organisms of this group develop in the serum of patients with infectious mononucleosis. Janeway and Dammin209 undertook a study to ascertain whether in patients with infectious mononucleosis agglutinins develop for either of the two known serologic groups of the genus Listerella. They observed that in all but 3 members of the normal control group the results ofThis publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: