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2788555

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
1989-10-4
pubmed:abstractText
A total of 127 patients, divided into two groups, were examined; one was made up by patients with dilated cardiomyopathy (D-CMP) (n: 32), the other one by patients with myocarditis and pericarditis ("other cardiopathies") (n: 95). A control group of healthy subjects (n: 278) consisted of blood donors. Infection with Coxsackie viruses (B1, B2, B3, B4, B5, B6, A7, A9) was followed up serologically using virus-neutralizing antibodies and/or IgM class virus-specific antibodies. Actual Coxsackie virus infection was demonstrated in almost half of patients. Seventeen (53.1%) out of the 32 D-CMP patients (with a negative history of Coxsackie virus infection) had a positive serological finding. The most frequently isolated Coxsackie virus was, B4. In the group of "other cardiopathies", a positive serological finding was in 42 patients (44.2%) with the incidence of B1 and B4 viruses being the highest and identical. Compared with data obtained in healthy controls, the incidence of Coxsackie virus infection in the two follow-up groups of patients was statistically highly significant (p less than 0.001).
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0010-8650
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
31
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
225-30
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1989
pubmed:articleTitle
Incidence of Coxsackie virus infection in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Cardiology, Research Institute of Preventive Medicine, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article