A six-year study of coxsackievirus B infections in heart disease.
Virological examination of 385 patients with suspected heart disease and 26 with Bornholm disease 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 of acute 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.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D003168:Complement Fixation Tests; D003384:Coxsackievirus Infections / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000382:microbiology; D004770:Enterovirus / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000472:pathogenicity; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009205:Myocarditis / Q000209:etiology; D010493:Pericarditis / Q000209:etiology; D011000:Pleurodynia, Epidemic / Q000209:etiology; D012698:Serologic Tests; D013997:Time Factors