Clinical features, pathological findings and outcome of children admitted to a tertiary care paediatric hospital with Epstein-Barr virus infection
Abstract
Introduction: Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection most commonly manifests as acute infectious mononucleosis but is usually asymptomatic.
Objective: To describe the clinical features, pathological findings and outcome of children admitted to a tertiary care paediatric hospital with EBV infection.
Method: The study group included children who were admitted with various presentations of EBV such as dengue like illness, prolonged fever, myocarditis, encephalitis and haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) over the last 3 years.
Results: In our study, 16 (45.7%) children had a dengue like illness, 5 (14.3%) had myocarditis, 1 (2.9%) had HLH, 2 (5.7%) had encephalitis and 11 (31.4%) had prolonged fever.
Conclusions: Dengue like illness and prolonged fever were the 2 most frequent presentations of EBV infection.
Sri Lanka Journal of Child Health, 2017; 46(3): 243-247
© 2017 Abu Bakkar Siddique, Kallol Bose, Sudip Saha, Kallol Das, Chanchal Kumar Kundu, Sutapa Ganguly, Piyashi Mondal, published by Sri Lanka College of Paediatricians
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