In this episode Dr's J and Santhosh round out the month of love with an 80 plgues dedicated to the kissing disease! Along the way they cover paleopathology, flossing for science, the importance of abbreviations, the discovery of Epstein Barr virus, heterophile antibodies, deep kissing, replication and diagnosis of the disease, splenic injury, symptoms duration, treatment and more! So sit back and relax as we plant a big wet kiss of knowledge on you!

Further Reading

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4346501/#:~:text=Infectious%20mononucleosis%20was%20recognized%20as,called%20the%20syndrome%20'idiopathic%20adenitis.&text=Indeed%2C%20its%20etiology%20remained%20a,between%20infectious%20mononucleosis%20and%20EBV.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1857056/

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4000473/

https://www.nature.com/articles/543163a#ref-CR1

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