PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Seitanidis, B. TI - A comparison of the Monospot with the Paul-Bunnell test in infectious mononucleosis and other diseases AID - 10.1136/jcp.22.3.321 DP - 1969 May 01 TA - Journal of Clinical Pathology PG - 321--323 VI - 22 IP - 3 4099 - http://jcp.bmj.com/content/22/3/321.short 4100 - http://jcp.bmj.com/content/22/3/321.full SO - J Clin Pathol1969 May 01; 22 AB - The Monospot is a spot test designed for the diagnosis of infectious mononucleosis and its efficacy has been compared with that of the standard Paul-Bunnell test. Three out of 210 (1ยท4%) sera from normal persons and persons suffering from diseases other than infectious mononucleosis gave `false' positive results when compared with the Paul-Bunnell test. Using 38 sera from patients with strong clinical and haematological evidence of infectious mononucleosis no false negative results were found with the Monospot test. The sera of 37 patients gave positive results with the Paul-Bunnell test: the one negative result was positive using serum taken a few days later.