Acute Benign Pericarditis

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Abstract
EVIDENCE incriminating Coxsackie viruses as the causal agents of a variety of human diseases is gradually increasing. Thus, Coxsackie viruses of Group A, which contains at least 19 immunologically different virus types, have definitely been shown to cause herpangina and are strongly suspected to be etiologically involved in meningoencephalitis.1 2 3 Viruses of Group B, which contains 5 immunologically different types, are now generally accepted as etiologically responsible for Bornholm disease (Sylvest's disease, epidemic pleurodynia, epidemic myalgia) and for a proportion of cases classified clinically as aseptic meningitis or meningoencephalitis.More recently the Coxsackie viruses have been causally linked to several cases . . .