[Proliferative activity of lymphocytes of peripheral blood in infectious mononucleosis in children].

Changes in proliferative activity of lymphocytes from peripheral blood may serve an additional diagnostic criterion of etiological variants of infectious mononucleosis (IM)(viral and bacterial). In MN of viral etiology in evident disease the ability of lymphoid cells to blasttransformation in the presence of PHA is low vs healthy children. In convalescence the changes persist, proliferative activity of cells increase in stimulation by lipopolysaccharide. Later blast-transformation of lymphocytes return to normal. In bacterial IM proliferative activity of PHA- and LPS-stimulated lymphocytes is normal.