Re: chronically high monocyte count?

[Guest guest]

I am not a doctor, but I am pretty sure that an elevated monocyte count is

pretty typically

for " mononucleosis " which is caused by EBV...

aaron

[Moderator: leukocytosis in which monocyte count is elevated is monocytosis.

Monocytosis often occurs during chronic inflammation. Diseases that produce this

state:

* Infections: tuberculosis, brucellosis, listeriosis, subacute bacterial

endocarditis, syphilis, infectious mononucleosis and other viral infections and

many protozoal and rickettsial infections (e.g. kala azar, malaria, Rocky

Mountain spotted fever). [NOTE Most of these are APS associated infections,

which tend to match tightly to CFIDS associated infection]

* Blood and immune causes: chronic neutropenia and myeloproliferative disorders.

* Autoimmune diseases and vasculitis: systemic lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid

arthritis and inflammatory bowel disease.

* Malignancies: Hodgkin's disease and certain leukaemias, such as chronic

myelomonocytic leukaemia (CMML) and monocytic leukemia.

* Recovery phase of neutropenia or an acute infection.

* Miscellaneous causes: sarcoidosis and lipid storage disease.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monocytosis ]