title: Primary Epstein-Barr virus infection in a renal transplant recipient.
abstract: A young girl with familial nephronophthisis and chronic renal failure contracted a primary Epstein-Barr virus infection after renal transplantation. During the illness she developed a clinical picture of fever and pneumonitis which closely resembled the posttransplantation syndrome usually associated with cytomegalovirus, although she had no evidence of cytomegalovirus infection. A younger sibling with the same renal disease was found retrospectively to have apparently had an earlier subclinical Epstein-Barr virus infection.
mesh_terms: D000914:Antibodies, Viral / Q000032:analysis; D002102:Cadaver; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006566:Herpesviridae Infections / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D007075:Immunoglobulin M / Q000032:analysis; D007165:Immunosuppression Therapy; D007244:Infectious Mononucleosis / Q000276:immunology; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000235:genetics / Q000601:surgery; D016030:Kidney Transplantation; D008297:Male; D007691:Medullary Sponge Kidney / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery; D011024:Pneumonia, Viral / Q000276:immunology; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous
chemical_list: D000914:Antibodies, Viral; D007075:Immunoglobulin M