Myocarditis in a Newborn Infant with Encephalomeningitis Due to Coxsackie Virus Group B, Type 5
- 31 July 1958
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 259 (5) , 234-236
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm195807312590507
Abstract
SINCE the Coxsackie virus was first isolated from patients with suspected poliomyelitis in 1947, there have been increasing reports of diseases, including aseptic meningitis, epidemic pleurodynia, herpangina and more recently myocarditis, caused by this virus.The first cases of myocarditis in infants, thought to be due to Coxsackie virus, were described from Southern Rhodesia1 and Transvaal.2 More recently, they have been reported in Holland3 and the United States.4 There was doubt that Coxsackie virus could be the etiologic agent in the first cases.5 However, Javett et al.2 and Kibrick and Benirschke,4 in addenda to their articles, described the virus recovered . . .Keywords
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