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H2O · Credits: 3043 My Scrapbook

A 17 year old girl has a low grade fever, lassitude, pharyngitis, generalized lymphadenopathy, and a palpable liver and spleen. A peripheral blood smear reveals the presence of atypical lymphocytes. The heterophil test is negative. Infection with which one of the following viruses is most likely?
a.Cytomegalovirus
b.Epstein Barr virus
c.Measles virus
d.Papillomavirus
e.Parvovirus

rk1972 · Credits: 1030 My Scrapbook

A 17 year old girl has a low grade fever, lassitude, pharyngitis, generalized lymphadenopathy, and a palpable liver and spleen. A peripheral blood smear reveals the presence of atypical lymphocytes. The heterophil test is negative. Infection with which one of the following viruses is most likely?
a.Cytomegalovirus
b.Epstein Barr virus
c.Measles virus
d.Papillomavirus
e.Parvovirus

richi15 · Credits: 150 My Scrapbook

Cytomegalovirus

million_dollar · Credits: 434 My Scrapbook

cytomegalovirus, whenever you have EB clincal picture and atypical lymphoctes in blood film it is cmv mononeucliosis.
i am 99.9% sure

sht · Credits: 954 My Scrapbook

if heterophil test is -ve, EBV is ruled out. so correct ans is A - CMV

rk1972 · Credits: 1030 My Scrapbook

soory guyz ,u rite cmv, i misread ....

ophtha · Credits: 10227 My Scrapbook

the only thing that doesnt fit here is presence of pharyngitis bc absence of pharyngitis is a differential criteria of CMV from IM.

doctormoony · Credits: 6682 My Scrapbook

maryana · Credits: 7531 My Scrapbook

CMV

sairababy · Credits: 1557 My Scrapbook

Ans 2 E.B.V

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