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Title: Coxsackie Virus Infections

Category: Pediatrics

Posted: 6/14/2013 by Rose Chasm, MD (Updated: 12/26/2024)
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enterovirus which lives in digestive tract, and is highly contagious
outbreaks worse in summer and fall, but is a self-limited illness
causes mild flu-like symptoms such as fever, headache, muscle aches, sore throat. with fever usually lasting less than 3 days
hand, foot, and mouth disease: syndrome of painful blisters in oropharynx and plams of hands and soles of feet
herpangina: painful blisters in oropharynx, usually posterior in location
hemorrhagic conjunctivitis: eye pain with injected conjunctivia
serious complications include: viral meningitis and encephalitis, myocarditis, and secondary bacterial infections

Pediatrics Text 19th edition, Nelson