Fatal adenovirus infection with misleading positive serology for infectious mononucleosis.
Symptoms and serological tests in a 19-year-old man with pneumonia indicated that he had infectious mononucleosis. Adenovirus type 7 was demonstrated in the lung by electron microscopy and was cultured from the liver, lung, lymph-nodes, and kidney.
D000257:Adenoviridae Infections / Q000209:etiology*; D000258:Adenovirus Infections, Human / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000401:mortality; D000260:Adenoviruses, Human / Q000276:immunology / Q000302:isolation & purification; D000328:Adult; D000914:Antibodies, Viral / Q000302:isolation & purification; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D007074:Immunoglobulin G / Q000302:isolation & purification; D007181:Inclusion Bodies, Viral; D007244:Infectious Mononucleosis / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008168:Lung / Q000382:microbiology; D008297:Male; D008854:Microscopy, Electron; D011024:Pneumonia, Viral / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000401:mortality
D000914:Antibodies, Viral; D007074:Immunoglobulin G