Clinical and Epidemiologic Observations of Coxsackie-Virus Infection

Abstract

COXSACKIE virus was first identified during a study of five small outbreaks of poliomyelitis in New York during the summer of 1947.1 , 2 The first strains were isolated from two paralyzed boys in the village of Coxsackie. The other epidemics in New York that year did not yield Coxsackie virus, but a number of isolations, including a second serologic type, were made later from specimens collected during the summer of 1947 in Wilmington, Delaware. During 1948 and 1949 the search was widened in New York and 24 isolations were made, including additional types and a second variety, Coxsackie virus Group B. . . .