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Enteroviruses

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Enteroviruses
Viruses which live in the gastrointestinal tract. Coxsackie viruses, viruses that cause hand-foot-mouth disease, are an enterovirus.


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Influenza usually takes its last few wheezing gasps after winter, when hantavirus and enteroviruses -- basically stomach bugs -- start to appear, and workers eagerly anticipate a new crop of West Nile virus samples from the state's budding mosquito populations.
A new study showed that enteroviruses - which normally cause colds, vomiting or diarrhoea - were frequently present in the pancreases of young people who had recently died from type 1 diabetes, but not in healthy samples.
 
 
 
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