Clinical Case Reports
Infectious Mononucleosis:
A Report of 3 Cases
1990 Volume 52 Issue 2 Pages 245-255
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1990 Volume 52 Issue 2 Pages 245-255
We reported 3 cases of infectious mononucleosis in which eruptions were observed after the administration of antibiotics.
Case 1: The patient was a 21 year-old woman. After she was treated for hepatitis, she came down with a high fever and took cefaclor. Two days later, numerous eruptions appeared over her entire body, and several lymph nodes enlarged.
Case 2: The patient was a 7 year-old male. He took cefatrizine and piperacillin, because he had a high fever. Many papules and petechiae soon appeared over his entire body, and the cervical and axillary lymph nodes enlarged.
Case 3 (A sister of case 2): The patient was a 4 year-old girl. After she took cefatrizine to relieve a high fever, many eruptions appeared over her entire body.
The importance of differentiating this disease from other diseases such as viral infections, malignant lymphoma, drug eruptions and so on was also discussed.
