Neonatal Myocarditis and Meningoencephalitis Due to Coxsackie Virus Group B, Type 4

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Abstract
A RECENT report1 described the simultaneous occurrence of aseptic meningitis in a woman at term and fatal meningoencephalitis with myocarditis in her newborn infant. It is the purpose of this report to provide details pertinent to the laboratory diagnosis of this infant's disease, which were not included in the original report, and to document relative immunologic maturity in this newborn infant.Clinical AbstractsThe clinical records presented in detail elsewhere1 are briefly summarized. A twenty-two-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital in Honolulu, Hawaii, at term with chills, fever and severe frontal headache. Nasal congestion and a nonproductive cough had . . .