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In humans, members of the Coxsackievirus B group (CBV) produce a variety of clinical diseases, including epidemic pleurodynia, meningitis, encephalitis, pericarditis, myocarditis, and pancreatitis. With the possible exception of a few reported cases of anemia, lymphopenia, and thrombocytopenia especially in infants (1,2) and two cases of association between neonatal CBV-1 infection and Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (3), these viruses are not regarded as common causes of damage to the hematopoietic and the immune systems. To our knowledge, however, studies on the immunologic functions of patients with clinical CBV infections are lacking.
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Toniolo, A., Matteucci, D., Basolo, F., Bendinelli, M. (1986). The Immune System in Experimental Coxsackievirus—B3 Infection. In: Szentivanyi, A., Friedman, H. (eds) Viruses, Immunity, and Immunodeficiency. University of South Florida International Biomedical Symposia Series. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2185-9_10
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