Subclinical course of Epstein-Barr virus infection in infants with transient hepatitis
Pohl-Koppe, A.; Gabriel, M.
Monatsschrift Kinderheilkunde Organ der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Kinderheilkunde 138(7): 374-376
1990
ISSN/ISBN: 0026-9298 PMID: 2169026 Document Number: 355558
Epstein-Barr-Virus-(EBV)-infections are well known to cause acute infectious mononucleosis in adolescents and young adults. However in early infancy and childhood these infections are usually mild and clinically inapparent. In the following we describe a case of a primary EBV-infection in infancy, which led to a transient hepatitis, identified by pathologically elevated liver enzymes.