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  Coxsackie virus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Coxsackie A virus is a cytolytic virus of the Picornaviridae family, a enterovirus (a group containing the polioviruses, coxsackieviruses, and echoviruses).
The virus was first documented in 1948 during an investigation into polio; it was named after the settlement in which it was found, Coxsackie, New York.
The most well known Coxsackie A disease is hand, foot and mouth disease (unrelated to foot and mouth disease), a common childhood illness, often produced by Coxsackie A16.
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Herpangina, another coxsackie virus infection of the throat, causes blisters and ulcers on the soft palate, roof of the mouth, and tonsils (3).
The coxsackie virus mutates over long periods of time and is known to alter its pattern of behavior as well as its preferred tissue or organ target (7).
Coxsackie virus replication begins in the gastrointestinal tract, or the respiratory tract, and then progresses to the blood stream (5).
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 UNDERSTANDING THE COXSACKIE VIRUS
It can change targets, and raise its destructive capability more easily than Coxsackie A. The capacity to mutate is in-built, and co-relates with disease outbreaks; Every two to five years, Coxsackie B produces a new "model" which attacks very young children, who by virtue of their age have never been exposed to this virus.
Coxsackie A is associated with "hand, foot and mouth" disease and was first documented in 1957, nearly a decade after the virus was first identified.
To identify a virus in the midst of an epidemic, scientists examine the genetic structure of the suspect.
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 Viral Myocarditis: Coxsackie Virus Infections
The coxsackie viruses are divided into two major subgroups, labeled A and B. There are 23 known coxsackie A viruses that usually cause only enteric diseases, and 6 known coxsackie B viruses, which are the ones of greatest concern because of their ability to cause serious diseases beyond the intestinal tract.
Coxsackie B viruses are estimated to be responsible for at least 50% of the cases of infection-caused heart diseases.
Coxsackie infections are recognized as health problems in modern China, contributing to the high rates of childhood intestinal disease, meningitis, and, for adults, myocarditis.
www.itmonline.org /arts/coxsackie.htm   (2576 words)

  
 Coxsackie B viruses   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Coxsackie B virus diseases can range from relatively minor gastrointestinal upsets to paralysis, cardiac damage, and birth defects, although the subclinical and mild infections are by far the most common.
All coxsackie B viruses are associated with a host of numerous and varied syndromes, including meningitis, pericarditis, myocarditis, upper respiratory illness and pneumonia, rash, and hepatitis, to name a few.
Coxsackie B viruses have been increasingly recognized as a cause of myocardial disease in adults and children, with up to 39% of people infected with coxsackievirus B5 developing cardiac abnormalities.
www.stanford.edu /group/virus/flavi/2000/coxsackieB.htm   (316 words)

  
 COXSACKIE VIRUS INFECTIONS - A patient's guide
Coxsackie viruses are a common cause of sore throats, especially for children, often in spring and summer.
Coxsackie virus is the common cause of haemorrhagic conjunctivitis - infection affecting the whites of the eyes.
Coxsackie virus is spread from saliva or faeces.
www.medic8.com /healthguide/articles/coxsackie.html   (1107 words)

  
 Analysis of Coxsackie B virus proteins
In this research, 2D-PAGE is being used to characterise the virus proteins and to determine the response of the cells to virus infection.
The most consistent explantion for this observation is that only a small proportion of the cells infected with virus may be present at one time and the uninfected cells in the population mask the response of the infected cells to the presence of the virus.
These virus variants were identifed on the basis of variation in the electrophoretic mobilties of their proteins (comapred to the parental virus) when analysed by either 1- or 2-dimensional electrophoresis.
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 Coxsackie Viruses
Hand, foot, and mouth disease, a type of coxsackie virus syndrome, causes painful red blisters in the throat and on the tongue, gums, inside of the cheeks, and the palms of hands and soles of the feet.
Herpangina, a coxsackie virus infection of the throat, causes red-ringed blisters and ulcers on the tonsils and soft palate, the fleshy back portion of the roof of the mouth.
Coxsackie viruses can also cause meningitis, an infection of the meninges (the three membranes that envelop the brain and spinal cord), and rarely, encephalitis, a brain infection.
kidshealth.org /parent/infections/bacterial_viral/coxsackie.html   (517 words)

  
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An electron microscope transmission of a negatively stained preparation of coxsackie B. The Coxsackie B viruses are members of the enterovirus (link) genus and are the most common agent for myocarditis and dilated cardiomyopathy constituting 50% of infections.
Coxsackie B infection is characterized by fever, fatigue, malaise and chest pains.
The coxsackie B virus initially replicates in the gut and spleen and eventually spreads to its target organ, the heart.
www.stanford.edu /group/virus/picorna/2000/virus3.html   (371 words)

  
 Picornaviruses- Enteroviruses
Coxsackie type A usually is associated with surface rashes (exanthems) while type B typically causes internal symptoms (pleurodynia, myocarditis) but both can also cause paralytic disease or mild respiratory tract infection.
The virus can spread transplacentally or from maternal fecal material and is most severe in infants born to mothers who contract the viral infection shortly before giving birth or in infants who contract the virus after birth.
Acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis is caused by Coxsackie A24 and enterovirus 70.
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Coxsackie B viruses are responsible for numerous cases of central nervous system infections in infants and children, as well as heart muscle infections in both children and adults.
Infection with the Coxsackie B virus is characterized by: fever, fatigue, malaise (body discomfort) and chest pains.
Coxsackie B viruses have also been known to cause: encephalitis (inflammation of the brain), flaccid motor paralysis (paralysis with loss of muscle tone), exanthema (appearance of lesions on the skin), rash, pneumonia (inflammation of the lungs) and generalized disease of the newborn.
www.safewater.org /facts/cox.htm   (885 words)

  
 Coxsackie Virus | AHealthyMe.com
The coxsackie A virus (which gets its name from Coxsackie, New York, the city where the virus was first identified) causes two common but unpleasant childhood illnesses: hand, foot, and mouth syndrome, and herpangina.
The virus spreads easily from mouth to mouth, or from feces to hand to mouth, and usually strikes children between 6 months and 4 years of age.
While babies can catch the virus, they are less prone to infection in the first months of life because their mother's antibodies passed through the umbilical cord temporarily protect them.
www.ahealthyme.com /article/bcrefcap/18520   (1025 words)

  
 Coxsackie virus -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The most well known Coxsackie A disease is (Click link for more info and facts about hand, foot and mouth disease) hand, foot and mouth disease (unrelated to (Click link for more info and facts about foot and mouth disease) foot and mouth disease), a common childhood illness, often produced by Coxsackie A16.
In others, infection produces short-lived (7-10 days) (Intense nervous anticipation) fever and painful ((pathology) an elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid) blisters in the mouth, on the palms and fingers of the hand, or on the soles of the feet.
Coxsackie B viruses also cause infectious (Inflammation of the myocardium (the muscular tissue of the heart)) myocarditis, infectious (Inflammation of the pericardium) pericarditis, and (Pain in the chest caused by inflammation of the muscles between the ribs) pleurodynia.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/co/coxsackie_virus.htm   (308 words)

  
 Coxsackie B4 virus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Coxsackie B4 virus is a virus which can trigger an autoimmune reaction which results in destruction of the insulin-producing beta cells of the pancreas, which is one of several different etiologies of diabetes.
There are several viruses in the Coxsackie family and many of them seem to evoke this response, as do several other agents.
A genetic predispostion to this seems to be required.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Coxsackie_B4_virus   (129 words)

  
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 Coxsackie Viruses
Named after Coxsackie, New York, where they were discovered, the coxsackie viruses are part of the enterovirus family of viruses (which also includes echoviruses, polio, and hepatitis A viruses) that live in the human digestive tract.
When an outbreak of coxsackie virus affects a community, risk for infection is highest among infants and children younger than 5.
Children who are sick with a coxsackie virus should be kept out of school or child care for a few days to avoid spreading the infection.
kidshealth.org /parent/infections/bacterial_viral/coxsackie_prt.htm   (1064 words)

  
 children with DIABETES - Common Class of Viruses Implicated as Cause of Type 1 Diabetes
The second demonstrates that the autoimmune reaction is triggered by a similarity between a coxsackie virus protein and a protein in the pancreas.
If the virus is shown to be a primary cause of the disease, vaccines against the virus probably could prevent diabetes, the researchers said.
Maclaren cautioned that coxsackie viruses may not be the cause of all type 1 diabetes.
www.childrenwithdiabetes.com /d_0n_120.htm   (635 words)

  
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Every two to five years, Coxsackie B produces a new "model" which attacks very young children, who by virtue of their age have never been exposed to this virus.
The virus, meanwhile, may mimic the protein structure of the heart muscle, and sometimes, may even interact and alter the antigenic configuration there.
The "Achilles heel" of the Coxsackie B virus is that it is readily inactivated by certain a gents: ultraviolet light, chlorine, formalin and heating to 560C.
www.cmsb.com.my /news/edu-news/1997/may/coxvi.htm   (1166 words)

  
 SWBIC - EnViruSAT Training Module 2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Please consider this exercise to be simply an exploration for describing the classification and evolution of the coxsackie virus VP capsid proteins and, by extension, the coxsackie virus strains.
On this tree the two longest sequences (gi1012020 and gi1012024) are virtually identical to each other but least similar to the first group, and their point of divergence on the topline left-to-right axis is farthest from the first group.
For the edited set of 18 coxsackie viral VP capsid sequences, the output from the GeneBee server includes the MSA, trees, and distance matrix used to calculate the trees.
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 Coxsackie virus
The researchers injected a cold virus called Coxsackievirus A21 into mice that were engineered to be susceptible to this particular virus.
The researchers determined that administering the virus directly into muscles, instead of the virus's normal home in the nasal cavity, was critical for development of polio.
In studying the virus' action within infected mice, they found that the virus traveled from the calf muscle where it was injected to the central nervous system along "motor neuron axons." Such axons extend from the central nervous system to muscles throughout the body and convey commands for muscle movement.
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 What is the coxsackie virus?
The coxsackie viruses (and there are several) are a group of viruses that are a common source of infection in kids.
This is when the virus causes some ulcers in the back of the throat.
Finally, there are times when this usually benign virus, unfortunately, causes more serious complications involving the heart.
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 Coxsackie A virus cure trial  Your Accessing Skill
The common form of this virus is generally benign, causing symptoms no more serious than a common cold or sore throat.
The coxsackie virus mutation, however, attacks heart tissues, causing heart failure.
Coxsackie viruses can also cause myositis, a muscle infection; meningitis, an infection of the membranes that cover the brain; and encephalitis, a brain infection.
www.immunics.org /00/virus/cocksakie_a.htm   (253 words)

  
 HON Mother & Child Glossary, Viral Infections in Childhood: Coxsackie
The name is derived from a village in New York State where the virus was first identified.
Coxsackie A viruses are divided into 24 serotypes and are associated with or implicated in herpangina, aseptic meningitis, paralytic disease, encephalitis, ataxia, and cardiac diseases.
Coxsackie A24 variant can cause acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis.
www.hon.ch /Dossier/MotherChild/child_virus/virus_coxsackie.html   (179 words)

  
 Hand Foot & Mouth   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
This is a mild illness caused by a virus called Coxsackie virus.
The virus generally causes red blisters on the palms of the hands and soles of feet.
The virus may cause the child to have a low-grade fever and be fretful.
www.pcpractice.com /HandFoot&Mouth.html   (185 words)

  
 Epidemic pleurodynia (bornholm disease) due to coxsackie B-5 virus; The interrelationship of pleurodynia, benign ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Epidemic pleurodynia (bornholm disease) due to coxsackie B-5 virus; The interrelationship of pleurodynia, benign pericarditis and aseptic meningitis -- Bain et al.
Epidemic pleurodynia (bornholm disease) due to coxsackie B-5 virus; The interrelationship of pleurodynia, benign pericarditis and aseptic meningitis
Ontario a widespread outbreak of Coxsackie B(5) virus infection.
pediatrics.aappublications.org /cgi/content/abstract/27/6/889   (245 words)

  
 Trans-complementation of a genetic defect in the coxsackie B3 virus 2B protein -- van Kuppeveld et al. 83 (2): 341 -- ...
RNA from the 2B-E[40]K mutant, CPE was observed in one of the
virus is a true revertant and not merely a wild-type virus contamination.
Barco, A. and Carrasco, L. A human virus protein, poliovirus protein 2BC, induces membrane proliferation and blocks the exocytic pathway in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
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 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Respiratory and Enteric Viruses Branch
Children are often excluded from group settings during the first few days of the illness, which may reduce the spread of infection, but will not completely interrupt it.
Exclusion of ill persons may not prevent additional cases since the virus may be excreted for weeks after the symptoms have disappeared.
Some benefit may be gained, however, by excluding children who have blisters in their mouths and drool or who have weeping lesions on their hands.
www.cdc.gov /ncidod/dvrd/revb/enterovirus/hfhf.htm   (1208 words)

  
 Coxsackie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Coxsackie homeopathic by Hanna Kroeger to help overcome the coxsackie virus and its symptoms.
Some of the coxsackie symptoms are adult-onset diabetes, insulin imbalance, pancreas problems, herpes, osteoporosis, pain in hips, lower back and/or joints when arthritis is not indicated, virus in spine.
The coxsackie virus is an enemy to the bones and can take a long time to manifest.
www.zhealthinfo.com /coxsackie.html   (120 words)

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