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cox·sack·ie·vi·rus

also Cox·sack·ie virus  (ko͝ok-sä′kē-vī′rəs, kŏk-săk′ē-)
n.
Any of a group of enteroviruses that are associated with a variety of diseases, including meningitis, myocarditis, and pericarditis, and primarily affect children during the summer months.

[After Coxsackie, a village of east-central New York.]
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Coxsackie virus

(kʊkˈsɑːkɪ)
n
(Microbiology) any of various viruses that occur in the intestinal tract of man and cause diseases, some of which resemble poliomyelitis
[C20: after Coxsackie, a town in New York state, where the virus was first found]
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Noun1.Coxsackie virus - enterovirus causing a disease resembling poliomyelitis but without paralysis
enterovirus - any of a group of picornaviruses that infect the gastrointestinal tract and can spread to other areas (especially the nervous system)
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I have found that in many of my chronic patients, their latent viruses come back to life--Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), Herpes 1-8, Coxsackie, Cytomegalovirus (CMV) amongst others.
He said the two children were diagnosed to have had foot and mouth viral infection caused by coxsackie virus and not the polio virus.
HFMD is caused by enterovirus A (formerly called human enterovirus A) which consists of 25 serotypes including multiple coxsackie A viruses, multiple enteroviruses, simian enteroviruses, and baboon enterovirus A13.
Provention's development pipeline includes a Phase 3 candidate for the interception of type 1 diabetes, two Phase 2, clinical-stage immunology candidates for inflammatory bowel diseases, a Phase 1 candidate for auto-antibody-mediated diseases such as systemic lupus erythematosus, and an investigational new drug -enabling-stage vaccine for acute coxsackie B virus infection and the potential prevention or delay in onset of T1D.
Besides EV71, the Coxsackie A16 virus (Cox A16) also causes HFMD.
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G3 and G4 were infected by intraperitoneal (ip) injection of 1 x [10.sup.5] plaque forming units (pfu) Coxsackie virus B3 (CVB3) per mouse, while G1 and G2 received ip injection of phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) on the same day.
GenBank accession numbers for viruses tested: poliovirus type 1 (V01149), poliovirus type 2 (AY238473 and M12197), poliovirus type 3 (K01392); Sabin-1 (AY184219), Sabin-2 (AY184220), Sabin-3 (AY184221); coxsackie virus 1 (AF499635), coxsackie virus 11 (AF499636), coxsackie virus 13 (AF465511), coxsackie virus 17 (AF499639), coxsackie virus 19 (AF499641), coxsackie virus 20 (AF499642, EF015012, and EF015019), coxsackie virus 21 (AF465515 and D00538), coxsackie virus 22 (AF499643), coxsackie virus 24 (EF026081); enterovirus C96 (HQ415759), enterovirus C99 (EF555644), enterovirus C102 (EF555645), enterovirus C104 (JX982259), enterovirus C105 (KM880098), enterovirus C109 (GQ865517), enterovirus C117 (JX262382), enterovirus C116 (JX514942), and enterovirus C118 (JX961709).
On the contrary, enteroviruses such as Coxsackie B have demonstrated prominent summer-fall seasonality due to proposed driving climate factors such as dew point temperature [2].
By: Egypt Today staff CAIRO -- 28 August 2017: Turkey's tourism situation has not been at its best during 2017's summer, due to several Russian allegations of the spread of the Coxsackie virus all over the state's resorts, which was denied by the Turkish Health Ministry.
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