Two New Variants of Infection with Coxsackie Virus Group B, Type 5, in Young Children

Abstract

BETWEEN March and August, 1961, an outbreak of illness was seen at the Naval Weapons Laboratory, Dahlgren, Virginia, characterized by epidemic pleurodynia in adults and older children, with viral pneumonia, and a syndrome of painful hepatomegaly or splenomegaly (or both), fever, anorexia, nausea, vomiting, conjunctivitis and cervical or axillary adenopathy in younger children. When we found the two syndromes were caused by a common agent a clinical and epidemiologic survey was performed.Clinical EvaluationMethodThe cases were divided into two groups at first but the pneumonias were added when a relation was noted. Unfortunately, viral studies were performed in . . .