Acute Respiratory Infections in Children

Outbreak of Coxsackie type B2 virus in a children's home in Newcastle upon Tyne.

“…However, an outbreak of summer febrile illness caused by Coxsackie type B2 virus without acute central nervous symptoms or pleurodynia (Heggie et al, 1960) and a similar illness in which Coxsackie B3 virus was found (Kendall et al, 1960) have been described. In both instances virus isolation was higher in ill children than in those without illness throat swabs were more often positive than faeces.…”