INFECTIOUS MONONUCLEOSIS: A CLINICAL STUDY OF SIXTY-THREE CASES
Authors: Alfred L. Kruger, Albert W. Wallace, Samuel J. Penchansky
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1945)

Article1 December 1945INFECTIOUS MONONUCLEOSIS: A CLINICAL STUDY OF SIXTY-THREE CASESALFRED L. KRUGER, ALBERT W. WALLACE, SAMUEL J. PENCHANSKYALFRED L. KRUGERSearch for more papers by this author, ALBERT W. WALLACESearch for more papers by this author, SAMUEL J. PENCHANSKYSearch for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-23-6-945 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptIn the interval between March 1942 and November 1944, a diagnosis of infectious mononucleosis was made on 63 patients who were seen in an Army Air Force Regional Hospital. Sixty-one of the patients in this study were of the white race, one was Chinese and one was colored, 87 per cent of them being between 18 and 25 years of age. The youngest patient was 18 and the oldest 42 years old. 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