Enterovirus 71 — Emerging Infections and Emerging Questions
- 23 September 1999
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 341 (13) , 984-985
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm199909233411309
Abstract
Enteroviruses are members of a family of viruses (the picornaviruses) that commonly infect humans throughout the world. They are associated with a broad range of diseases, including various enanthems and exanthems, hemorrhagic conjunctivitis, myocarditis, pericarditis, several central nervous system syndromes (most commonly aseptic meningitis), and undifferentiated febrile illnesses with or without respiratory tract symptoms. Almost all enteroviral infections are probably either asymptomatic or mild and self-limited. Historically, enteroviruses have been divided into the following subgroups largely on the basis of differences in the range of hosts and pathogenicity: the polioviruses, group A coxsackieviruses, group B coxsackieviruses, and echoviruses. Serologically distinct . . .Keywords
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