Title: Coxsackie Virus Infections<br/>Author: Rose Chasm<br/><a href='http://umem.org/profiles/faculty/82/'>[Click to email author]</a><hr/><ul>
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enterovirus which lives in digestive tract, and is highly contagious</li>
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outbreaks worse in summer and fall, but is a self-limited illness</li>
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causes mild flu-like symptoms such as fever, headache, muscle aches, sore throat. with fever usually lasting less than 3 days</li>
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hand, foot, and mouth disease: syndrome of painful blisters in oropharynx and plams of hands and soles of feet</li>
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herpangina: painful blisters in oropharynx, usually posterior in location</li>
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hemorrhagic conjunctivitis: eye pain with injected conjunctivia</li>
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serious complications include: viral meningitis and encephalitis, myocarditis, and secondary bacterial infections</li>
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Pediatrics Text 19th edition, Nelson</p>
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