viral myocarditis is a common cardiovascular disease, which has greatly threatened human health. however, up to now, the pathogenesis of viral myocarditis has been unclear, which leads to the lack of its effective treatments. to investigate the role of chemokines in pathogenesis of viral myocarditis, mrna expression for a panel of 19 chemokines detected by rt-pcr in myocardial tissue of balb/c ...

enteroviruses are the causative agents of a number of diseases in humans. group b coxsackieviruses are believed to be the most common viral agents responsible for human heart disease. genomic data of enteroviruses has allowed developing new molecular approaches such as nucleic acid sequence based amplification (nasba) for detection of such viruses. in this study, coxsackievirus b3 (cvb3) was de...

The host response to Coxsackievirus infection is complex, including T lymphocytes, B lymphocytes, natural killer cells, and macrophages. Although Coxsackievirus infection induces expression of inducible nitric oxide synthase (NOS2; EC 1.14.13.39) in macrophages, the precise role of NOS2 in the host response to Coxsackievirus myocarditis has been unclear. We show, by using mice homozygous for a ...

HFMD: hand-foot-mouth disease CVA: coxsackievirus A CVB: coxsackievirus B HEV71: human enterovirus 7

(along with her daughter) systemic symptoms characteristic of coxsackievirus infection preceding her visual symptoms. However, the acute and convalescent coxsackievirus antibody titers that were obtained in the woman were not abnormal. There have been several reports of coxsackievirus infection associated with chorioretinitis, and the lesions described bear some resemblance to UAIM. Coxsackievi...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The epidemiology of coxsackievirus has rarely been investigated in Taiwan. This study was performed to ascertain the epidemiological and clinical characteristics of coxsackievirus infections in Taiwan. METHODS 457 patients treated at a medical center in northern Taiwan who were positive for coxsackievirus were enrolled in this retrospective study. Patients' medical char...

Viral myocarditis is a common cardiovascular disease, which has greatly threatened human health. However, up to now, the pathogenesis of viral myocarditis has been unclear, which leads to the lack of its effective treatments. To investigate the role of chemokines in pathogenesis of viral myocarditis, mRNA expression for a panel of 19 chemokines detected by RT-PCR in myocardial tissue of BALB/c ...

To determine the cause of a 2008 outbreak of aseptic meningitis in Shandong Province, China, we analyzed samples from outbreak patients and coxsackievirus B3 samples collected during 1990-2010 surveillance. The cause of the outbreak was coxsackievirus B3, genogroup D. Frequent travel might increase importation of other coxsackievirus B3 genogroups.

In this study, a zebrafish homologue of the coxsackievirus and adenovirus receptor (CAR) protein was identified. Although the extracellular domain of zebrafish CAR (zCAR) is less than 50% identical to that of human CAR (hCAR), zCAR mediated infection of transfected cells by both adenovirus type 5 and coxsackievirus B3. CAR residues interacting deep within the coxsackievirus canyon are highly co...

In a matched case-control study of the association between coxsackieviruses and cardiac impairment, 24 human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) type 1-infected children with cardiac impairment were compared with 24 HIV-1-infected control subjects. Serologic evidence of coxsackievirus infection was present in all children, with no significant difference in geometric mean antibody titers between case p...