RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Coxsackie B infection in a Scottish general practice
JF The Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners
JO J R Coll Gen Pract
FD British Journal of General Practice
SP 15
OP 19
VO 34
IS 258
A1 B. D. Calder
A1 P. J. Warnock
YR 1984
UL http://bjgp.org/content/34/258/15.abstract
AB The authors describe 38 cases of protracted illness, characterized by varied multisystem symptomatology. Significant antibody titres to Coxsackie B viruses, suggesting recent infection, were found in these 38 patients (47 per cent of 81 cases investigated). The syndrome has many of the features of myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), a condition which has frequently been found in closely clustered epidemics but seldom in sporadic or endemic form. The reported cases emerged over a four-year period and fresh cases continue to appear.