[Epidemic due to group B Coxsackie viruses in a newborn infants' department (author's transl)].
Virological and clinical researches have been done on hospitalized newborn infants' with various infectious diseases (respiratory infections, aseptic meningitis, serious generalized disease). Initially from some newborn children Coxsackie B5 virus has been isolated and later from other patients Coxsackie B3 virus. The pathological findings, in those newborn who died as a result of serious generalized disease were dominated by hemorragic lesions in different organs.
D003384:Coxsackievirus Infections / Q000453:epidemiology*; D003428:Cross Infection / Q000453:epidemiology*; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007232:Infant, Newborn, Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D007558:Italy; D008581:Meningitis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D008582:Meningitis, Aseptic / Q000453:epidemiology*; D012141:Respiratory Tract Infections / Q000453:epidemiology*
Epidemia da virus Coxsackie di gruppo B in un reparto neonatale.