[Dehydrogenase activity in mononuclear cells of peripheral blood in infectious mononucleosis in children]

The study of the activity of dehydrogenases in blood cells could be an additional method at diagnostics of etiological variants of infectious mononucleosis (IM) of the viral and bacterial types. The activity of succinatedehydrogenasa (SDG) and of alpha-glycerophosphatedehydrogenase (alpha-GPDG) was increasing in lymphocytes and monocyte of the peripheral blood as compared to the same activity in healthy children. Such changes were preserved in the reconvalescense phase. The activity of enzymes in the lymphoid and monocytic cells was found at viral IM to meet the normal value. The atypical mononuclear cells, found in blood of patients with IM of both viral and bacterial nature, are a population of different-activity cellular dehydrogenases, in which cellular elements with the activity of SDG and alpha-GPDG, corresponding to the enzyme status of monocytes, are predominant.