STUDIES ON INFECTIOUS MONONUCLEOSIS. II. THE RELATIONSHIP OF THE ORGANISMS OF THE GENUS LISTERELLA TO THE DISEASE, AS STUDIED BY THE AGGLUTINATION REACTION
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- 1 March 1941
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Clinical Investigation in Journal of Clinical Investigation
- Vol. 20 (2) , 233-239
- https://doi.org/10.1172/jci101216
Abstract
The conflicting evidence on the supposed role of L. monocyto-genes in the causation of infectious mononucleosis is discussed. The sera of patients with this disease were tested for the development of agglutinins to representatives of the 2 known serologic groups of the genus Listerella. Although such patients showed slightly higher titers than a control group of normal people and patients with other diseases, the difference was not striking. No rise and fall of agglutinins during the course of the disease were observed, and the authors conclude that their study failed to yield any confirmation of the etiologic role of the Listerella organisms in infectious mononucleosis.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- THE FUNCTION OF LISTERELLA IN INFECTIONAnnals of Internal Medicine, 1940