Long‐Term Shedding of Infectious Epstein‐Barr Virus after Infectious Mononucleosis
The Journal of Infectious Diseases2005Vol. 191(6), pp. 985–989
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Samira Fafi‐Kremer, Patrice Morand, Jean‐Paul Brion, Patricia Pavèse, M. Baccard, Raphaële Germi, O. Genoulaz, Sandrine Nicod, Michel Jolivet, Rob W. H. Ruigrok, J.‐P. Stahl, Jean‐Marie Seigneurin
Abstract
Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) DNA loads in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs), plasma, and saliva, as well as infectivity of the virus in saliva, were evaluated in 20 patients for 6 months after the onset of infectious mononucleosis (IM). All patients displayed sustained high EBV DNA loads in the saliva, associated with a persistent infectivity of saliva at day 180. EBV DNA load in PBMCs decreased significantly from day 0 to day 180 (in spite of a viral rebound between day 30 and day 90 in 90% of the patients), and EBV DNA rapidly disappeared from plasma. These data show that patients with IM remain highly infectious during convalescence.
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