STUDIES OF COXSACKIE VIRUSES
- 21 October 1950
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA
- Vol. 144 (8) , 609-613
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1950.02920080011004
Abstract
Within the past few years attention has been directed to a newly discovered group of virus agents, which have been found in association with a variety of human illnesses occurring during the late summer and early autumn months. The first virus of this group was isolated in 1947 by Dalldorf, Sickles and associates1from the feces of two patients ill with a paralytic disease during a small outbreak of poliomyelitis in Coxsackie, N. Y. It has since been shown that this and similar viruses included in the Coxsackie group are probably widely prevalent parasites of man. The possible causal relationship between infection with these viruses and the various clinical illnesses previously associated with them are less well established. The purposes of this report are: (1) to review briefly current knowledge of these viruses as reflected in published reports; (2) to describe an outbreak of acute febrile illnesses of shortKeywords
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