A patient with fever, abdominal pain and bicytopenia: Trouble once again with these IgM antibodies!

J Clin Virol

Université de Lille, Faculté de Médecine, CHU Lille, Laboratoire de Virologie, EA3610 Lille, France. Electronic address:

Published: February 2016

We here report the case of a 30-year old man with a history of ulcerative colitis, who presented clinical and biological features compatible with a viral hepatitis. Initial serological results revealed the presence of IgM antibodies against many viruses, and the most likely diagnosis was viral hepatitis A. However, further investigations were performed and concluded to cytomegalovirus primary infection.

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