TY - JOUR 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 SP - 15 LP - 19 VL - 34 IS - 258 AU - B. D. Calder AU - P. J. Warnock Y1 - 1984/01/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/34/258/15.abstract N2 - 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. ER -