Coxsackie virus
Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Usama Talib, BSc, MD [2]
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Coxsackie Virus |
Overview
Coxsackie (virus) is a cytolytic virus of the Picornaviridae family, an enterovirus (a group containing the polioviruses, coxsackieviruses, and echoviruses). There are 61 non-polio enteroviruses that can cause disease in humans, of which 23 are Coxsackie A viruses (6 are Coxsackie B viruses). Enterovirus are the second most common viral infectious agents in humans (after the rhinoviruses)
Classification
| Coxsackie Virus | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coxsackie A virus | Coxsackie B virus[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| • Hand, foot and mouth disease • Acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis • Herpangina • Aseptic meningitis | • Pericarditis • Myocarditis • Pericardial effusion • Pleurodynia • hepatitis • Coxsackie B4 virus • Diabetes mellitus • Acute flaccid myelitis[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coxsackie A virus
Coxsackie B virus
Coxsackie B4 virus
Differential Diagnosis
Template:Baltimore classification Template:Viral diseases
- ↑ Fields, Bernard N. (1985). Fields Virology. New York: Raven Press. pp. 739–794. ISBN 0-88167-026-X. Unknown parameter
|coauthors=ignored (help) - ↑ Cho SM, MacDonald S, Frontera JA (2017). "Coxsackie B3/B4-Related Acute Flaccid Myelitis". Neurocrit Care. doi:10.1007/s12028-017-0377-8. PMID 28324262.