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When indicated, a negative monospot may be followed up with other blood tests to look for CMV or other causes of infectious mononucleosis.
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The most common blood tests done are a complete blood count (which may show an elevated white blood count with atypical lymphocytes) and a monospot.
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The monospot confirms the diagnosis most of the time in people with Epstein-Barr virus infectious mononucleosis, but sometimes has false positive results and it is negative in patients with infectious mononucleosis from causes other than Epstein-Barr virus.
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