Infection with EBV is wide spread and most infections are asymptomatic. The link between EBV and a variety of lymphoproliferative disease is now clear.
1.EBV is the causative organism of the classical infectious mononucleosis (glandular fever)
2. Other EBV associated diseases are:
Nasopharyngeal carcinoma
Burkitt's lymphoma
Oral hairy leukoplakia (seen in AIDS patients)
Hodgkin's disease
T cell lymphoma
The virus is excreted and transmitted via the saliva and multiply in the oropharyngeal mucosa. EBV receptors are also present on B-lymphocytes
then about Infectious Mononucleosis ( Glandular Fever)
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