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| | eMedicine - Coxsackieviruses : Article by Nhat M Doan, MD |
 | | Synonyms and related keywords: coxsackievirus A, hand-foot-and-mouth disease, hand-foot-mouth disease, HFM disease, vesicular stomatitis with exanthem, coxsackievirus B, Bamle disease, Bornholm disease, Daae disease, Sylvest disease, benign dry pleurisy, epidemic pleurodynia, devil's grip, devil's grippe, diaphragmatic pleurisy, epidemic benign dry pleurisy, epidemic diaphragmatic pleurisy, epidemic myalgia, epidemic myositis, myositis epidemica acuta, epidemic transient diaphragmatic spasm |
 | | The viruses replicate in the oropharynx and gastrointestinal tract and disseminate hematogenously to cause distant disease. |
 | | This is a disease of muscles, and viral invasion of muscles causing inflammation is suspected; however, direct histologic evidence is lacking. |
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