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A six-year study of coxsackievirus B infections in heart disease

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

N. R. Grist  and
Eleanor J. Bell
N. R. Grist
Affiliation:
University of Glasgow Department of Infectious Diseases and Regional Virus Laboratory, Ruchill Hospital, Glasgow, G20 9NB
Eleanor J. Bell
Affiliation:
University of Glasgow Department of Infectious Diseases and Regional Virus Laboratory, Ruchill Hospital, Glasgow, G20 9NB
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Virological examination of 385 patients with suspected heart disease and 26 with Bornholmdisease over a period of 6 years suggested that Coxsackie group B virus infections were associated with at least half the cases of acute myocarditis and one third of the cases ofacute non-bacterial pericarditis. Complement-fixation tests revealed only a few cardiac illnesses associated with other infections (influenza and Mycoplasma pneumoniae). No evidence of infection was found in chronic cardiac disease.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Hygiene , Volume 73 , Issue 2 , October 1974 , pp. 165 - 172
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1974

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