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Strep throat is another differential.
If pt. has both, it complicates treatment, antibiotics may be indicated, but "Patients with EBV infectious mononucleosis who have positive throat cultures for group A streptococci should not be treated because this represents colonization rather than infection (see Workup)." http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/222040-medication
Article says that "About 45 out of 100,000 people develop mono each year in the United States" and that "Nearly 95% of people have been infected by the time they are adults." These two rates don't make sense, 95% by adulthood is over 5,000 per 100,000 each year. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.99.106.142 ( talk) 07:01, 27 August 2017 (UTC)
About 45 out of 100,000 people develop mono as a disease, meaning they are symptomatic and seek medical care. The fact that 95% of people have been infected with mono by the time they are adults was a complete surprise when this was first discovered (based on testing of all pregnant women in one study, with the assumption that prevalence of women is similar to men). This led to the conclusion that the vast majority of infection with the virus that causes mono (which is EBV) is asymptomatic. That is, most people catch the virus without getting sick but forever remaining immune to it afterwards, while a minority actually get sick from the virus. So this is how you can resolve the paradox of both the above facts.-- Beezer137 ( talk) 23:37, 30 July 2018 (UTC)
Often we structure the lead in the same order as the body of the text. Thus moved society and culture stuff and history to the 4th paragraph. Doc James ( talk · contribs · email) 16:32, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
In the majority of the English-speaking world - and, for that matter, the rest of the world as well - this is colloquially known exclusively as glandular fever. The term Mono, and Mononucleosis, is exclusive to the United States, and to a lesser extent Canada, and is almost completely unknown outside of those countries. Shouldn't the page reflect this, rather than pretending the reverse is true? Khardankov ( talk) 08:21, 20 April 2021 (UTC)
Do you, or most people, get immune for life, or for a period of time, once you've had the infection? Is it the same whether you've been symptomatic or not? Maybe the article answers those questions, but I haven't found the answers - and I think it should answer them.-- Nø ( talk) 08:47, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
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Reviewer: Femke ( talk · contribs) 20:55, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
Hello Konstantina. Thank you very much for improving this article and nominating it for GA. I see you're relatively new to Wikipedia editing. You may not yet be aware of our guidance on what
sources Wikipedia prefers in medical articles, so I advise you to take a quick look there. Most importantly, medical sources should typically be secondary sources and relatively new sources. For a big topic like this, there should usually be reviews available published in the last five years. Older reviews might be outdated and we can't ascertain that they are correct without checking more recent sources. A quick glance at the article reveals that quite a few sources are older than five years old. For instance:
Another GA requirement is broadness. You may want to improve the section in the pathophysiology. It currently talks a bit about the differential diagnosis, which is better placed at the differential diagnosis section, it doesn't talk too much about the pathophysiology. For instance, according to this summary source, it spreads via the lymphic system, which we dont quite mention.
All in all, the article requires quite some work before it meets the GA criteria. I think the best way forward is for me to fail this nomination for now. If you would like some mentoring and additional tips on how to improve medical articles, my talk page is always open. Another great place to meet people But loads of experience editing medical articles is at The WikiProject Medicine. You are free to re-nominate when you've addressed the comments, and updated the article to use better sourcing. —Femke 🐦 ( talk) 20:55, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
![]() | Infectious mononucleosis was nominated as a Natural sciences good article, but it did not meet the good article criteria at the time (February 29, 2024, reviewed version). There are suggestions on the review page for improving the article. If you can improve it, please do; it may then be renominated. |
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Strep throat is another differential.
If pt. has both, it complicates treatment, antibiotics may be indicated, but "Patients with EBV infectious mononucleosis who have positive throat cultures for group A streptococci should not be treated because this represents colonization rather than infection (see Workup)." http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/222040-medication
Article says that "About 45 out of 100,000 people develop mono each year in the United States" and that "Nearly 95% of people have been infected by the time they are adults." These two rates don't make sense, 95% by adulthood is over 5,000 per 100,000 each year. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.99.106.142 ( talk) 07:01, 27 August 2017 (UTC)
About 45 out of 100,000 people develop mono as a disease, meaning they are symptomatic and seek medical care. The fact that 95% of people have been infected with mono by the time they are adults was a complete surprise when this was first discovered (based on testing of all pregnant women in one study, with the assumption that prevalence of women is similar to men). This led to the conclusion that the vast majority of infection with the virus that causes mono (which is EBV) is asymptomatic. That is, most people catch the virus without getting sick but forever remaining immune to it afterwards, while a minority actually get sick from the virus. So this is how you can resolve the paradox of both the above facts.-- Beezer137 ( talk) 23:37, 30 July 2018 (UTC)
Often we structure the lead in the same order as the body of the text. Thus moved society and culture stuff and history to the 4th paragraph. Doc James ( talk · contribs · email) 16:32, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
In the majority of the English-speaking world - and, for that matter, the rest of the world as well - this is colloquially known exclusively as glandular fever. The term Mono, and Mononucleosis, is exclusive to the United States, and to a lesser extent Canada, and is almost completely unknown outside of those countries. Shouldn't the page reflect this, rather than pretending the reverse is true? Khardankov ( talk) 08:21, 20 April 2021 (UTC)
Do you, or most people, get immune for life, or for a period of time, once you've had the infection? Is it the same whether you've been symptomatic or not? Maybe the article answers those questions, but I haven't found the answers - and I think it should answer them.-- Nø ( talk) 08:47, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
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Reviewer: Femke ( talk · contribs) 20:55, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
Hello Konstantina. Thank you very much for improving this article and nominating it for GA. I see you're relatively new to Wikipedia editing. You may not yet be aware of our guidance on what
sources Wikipedia prefers in medical articles, so I advise you to take a quick look there. Most importantly, medical sources should typically be secondary sources and relatively new sources. For a big topic like this, there should usually be reviews available published in the last five years. Older reviews might be outdated and we can't ascertain that they are correct without checking more recent sources. A quick glance at the article reveals that quite a few sources are older than five years old. For instance:
Another GA requirement is broadness. You may want to improve the section in the pathophysiology. It currently talks a bit about the differential diagnosis, which is better placed at the differential diagnosis section, it doesn't talk too much about the pathophysiology. For instance, according to this summary source, it spreads via the lymphic system, which we dont quite mention.
All in all, the article requires quite some work before it meets the GA criteria. I think the best way forward is for me to fail this nomination for now. If you would like some mentoring and additional tips on how to improve medical articles, my talk page is always open. Another great place to meet people But loads of experience editing medical articles is at The WikiProject Medicine. You are free to re-nominate when you've addressed the comments, and updated the article to use better sourcing. —Femke 🐦 ( talk) 20:55, 29 February 2024 (UTC)