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Concurrent infectious mononucleosis and measles: a potentially life-threatening association sharing underlying immunodeficiency
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Concurrent infectious mononucleosis and measles: a potentially life-threatening association sharing underlying immunodeficiency
Pediatr Infect Dis J.
2003 May.
Abstract
We report lethal interstitial pneumonia in an 18-year-old young man with measles infection following recent infectious mononucleosis. We speculate that the documented T cell immune impairment caused by the concurrent Epstein-Barr and measles viral infections (as expressed by a proportionately low CD4+ lymphocyte count) was responsible for the complicated clinical course and unfavorable outcome.
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