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Table 3 The disease spectrum in EBV-positive children

From: The impact of serological features in Chinese children with primary or past Epstein–Barr virus infections

Diagnosis

Primary infection

Past infection

Orphaned VCA-IgG

No infection

(n = 60)

(n = 95)

(n = 9)

(n = 116)

IM

24 (40.0%)

3 (3.2%)

1 (14.3%)

5 (4.3%)

Respiratory infection

25 (41.7%)

74 (77.9%)

7 (77.8%)

94 (81.0%)

Kawasaki disease

2 (3.3%)

6 (6.3%)

 

7 (6.0%)

ITP

1 (1.7%)

1 (1.1%)

  

Anaphylactic purpura

1 (1.7%)

1 (1.1%)

  

Ulcerative stomatitis

1 (1.7%)

   

Measles

1 (1.7%)

  

1 (0.9%)

Asthma

1 (1.7%)

2 (2.1%)

 

3 (2.6%)

JRA

1 (1.7%)

1 (1.1%)

  

Pulmonary tuberculosis

1 (1.7%)

1 (1.1%)

  

Herpangina

1 (1.7%)

1 (1.1%)

 

2 (1.7%)

Hand-foot-mouth disease

1 (1.7%)

   

Summer fever

 

1 (1.1%)

1 (14.3%)

 

GERD

 

1 (1.1%)

  

CMV infection

 

1 (1.1%)

  

Virus infection

 

1 (1.1%)

 

1 (0.9%)

Fever of unknown origin

 

1 (1.1%)

  

Exanthema subitum

   

1 (0.9%)

Adenolymphitis

   

1 (0.9%)

Blood poisoning

   

1 (0.9%)

  1. IM, infectious mononucleosis; ITP, idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura; JRA, juvenile rheumatoid arthritis; GERD, gastroesophageal reflux disease.