Thrombophlebitis and upper respiratory tract virus infection.
During an episode of thrombophlebitis, the 72-year-old correspondent came down with a common cold presumably, but not provenly, due to infection by one of the rhinoviruses. During the 96 hr period of coryza, all symptoms of thrombophlebitis vanished completely. There is experimental evidence that rhinovirus infections elicit cytokine production [Stöckl et al. (1999): J Clin Invest 104: 957-965], and that IL-10 can assuage thrombosis in rats [Downing et al. (1998): J Immunol 161: 1471-1476].
Doerfler
Walter
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Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. walter.doerfler@viro.med.uni-elangen.de
D000368:Aged; D003139:Common Cold / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013924:Thrombophlebitis / Q000150:complications*