Infectious mononucleosis in the Negro

Summary 1. Nine cases of infectious mononucleosis in Negroes are reported. Eight of these were serologically confirmed. 2. These cases bring the total of sporadic cases reported to twenty-nine. Including the epidemic of forty-nine cases in 1945 at Fort Bliss, Texas, the total of cases in the Negro reaches seventy-eight reported throughout the literature. 3. Infectious mononucleosis at this hospital is at least as common in Negro children as in white children. 4. The majority of these patients were admitted because of suspected diphtheria. 5. This series further substantiates the conclusions made in 1945, that infectious mononucleosis is relatively as common in the Negro as in the white.