A virus that can cause inflammation of the heart, brain or eye, or hand-foot-and-mouth disease.

enterovirus causing a disease resembling poliomyelitis but without paralysis

a group of viruses first isolated in 1948 from two children in Coxsackie, New York. Most coxsackievirus infections in humans are mild, but the viruses do produce a variety of illnesses including aseptic meningitis (inflammation of the meninges not due to microorganisms), herpangina (a benign infectious disease of children), epidemic pleurodynia (disease characterized by pain of sharp intensity in the chest accompanied by fever), acute upper respiratory infection, and myocarditis of the newborn (inflammation of the middle layer of the walls of the heart), among others. It is possible that infection during the first trimester of pregnancy can cause increased incidence of congenital heart lesions in newborns.