Sibship structure and risk of infectious mononucleosis: a population-based cohort study

Klaus Rostgaard, Trine Rasmussen Nielsen, Jan Wohlfahrt, Henrik Ullum, Ole Birger Pedersen, Christian Erikstrup, Lars Peter Nielsen, Henrik Hjalgrim

International Journal of Epidemiology · 2014 · 23 citations · 35 references

Abstract

Younger siblings, and to a lesser degree older siblings, seem to be important in the transmission of EBV within families. Apparently the dogma of low birth order in a sibship as being at the highest risk of infectious mononucleosis is no longer valid.

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