“…Human myocarditis has been associated with a number of families of viruses [Hirsch man and Hammer, 1974;Russell and Bell, 1970;Finland et al, 1945;Giustra and Nils son, 1950;Obeyesekere and Hermon, 1972;Ross and Armentrout, 1962;Thiede, 1962], The group B coxsackieviruses account for approximately 50% of the clinical cases of infectious myocarditis [Smith, 1970;Grist and Bell, 1974] and have been implicated in approximately 10-20% of all cases of idio pathic chronic cardiomyopathy. The cox sackievirus B3 (CB3) subgroup is most com monly associated with myocardial disease.…”