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Coxsackie B virus
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Coxsackie B virus
A mild virus belonging to a group of viruses (coxsackievirus) that may produce a variety of illnesses, including myocarditis.
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An ELISA (Virion/Serion, Wurzburg, Germany) detected IgG antibodies for rubella virus, cytomegalovirus, varicella zoster virus, parainfluenza virus, adenovirus, and coxsackie B virus; however, these results were not indicative of active infection.
Most EVs have been implicated in aseptic meningitis, most notably echovirus (E) 30, 9, 6, and 11 and coxsackie B virus (CBV) type 5 (2); other serotypes are less frequently associated with neurologic disease.
In an animal model of acquired autoimmune disease, experimental autoimmune myocarditis, iHg pretreatment was reported to exacerbate disease, including cardiomyopathy and mortality, after infection with coxsackie B virus (Ilback et al.
 
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