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What viruses/bacteria can cause tonsillar hypertrophy?
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Bacterial cause acute inflammation, not hypertrophy per se. Chronic infection with Epstein virus is the leading cause of tonsillar enlargement due to neoplasia. Hypertrophy is a technical with specific connotation of enlargement due to increase in the size of involved cells and that is not a usual cause of tonsillar enlargement.
Answered 6/27/2021
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