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enterovirus

In medicine, one of a family of small polyhedral RNA-containing viruses that enter the body through the gut and are able to penetrate the central nervous system. They include the polio virus; Coxsackie viruses that cause diseases such as herpangina and epidemic myalgia; and ECHO viruses that cause aseptic meningitis.



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Thus, the RDV method could detect unidentified cytopathic-effect agents such as enterovirus that could not be detected by RT-PCR when the conventional primer set for enteroviruses was used.
Poliomyelitis is an enterovirus, appearing in 3 strains (types I, II, and III), that attacks the anterior horn cells, brain stem, and reticular activating system in people with the disease.
Persistent viral infection theory has reported that patients may have chronic Epstein-Barr virus infection, chronic enterovirus (coxsackie virus) infection, human herpes virus type 6 (HHV-6) infection, or human T-lymphotrophic virus type II (HTLV-II) retrovirus infection.
 
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