Hand Foot and Mouth Disease - Coxsackie
Virus Infections Today, a friend was concerned about this disease, her baby went to the doctor and found this diagnosis. Coxsackievirus is a virus, that belongs to a family of nonenveloped, linear, positive-sense ssRNA viruses; Picornaviridae and the genus Enterovirus, which also includes poliovirus and echovirus. Enteroviruses are among the most common and important human pathogens, and ordinarily, their members are transmitted by the fecal-oral route. Coxsackieviruses share many characteristics with poliovirus. With the control of poliovirus infections in much of the world, more attention has been focused on understanding the nonpolio enteroviruses such as coxsackievirus. Coxsackieviruses are among the leading causes of aseptic meningitis (the other usual suspects being echovirus and mumps virus) Coxsackieviruses are divided into group A and group B viruses. The most well-known Coxsackie A disease is Hand, foot, and mouth disease (unrelated to hoof and mouth dise