Among the suspected causes is the Coxsackie virus, a common virus that ordinarily causes fever and other flu-like symptoms.
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Then they infected the animals, in one experiment, with coxsackie viruses and, in a second experiment, with influenza viruses.
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Most adults in the United States are immune to many Coxsackie viruses because they were infected when they were young.
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The fragments literally dangle in the cleft, telling the body, " Hey, I'm a foreign protein from the coxsackie virus.
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To understand how molecular mimicry is believed to work, consider two people who are exposed to the common coxsackie virus.
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After four weeks, both groups were exposed to a type of Coxsackie virus called B3 that is normally harmless to mice.
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In 1997, myocarditis caused by a strain of the Coxsackie virus killed 30 children in Malaysia over the course of three months.
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The outbreak of the Coxsackie virus, which has claimed 30 lives since April, is threatening Malaysia's tourism industry, a minister said Sunday.
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In the first of these, doctors intentionally infected intrepid volunteers with coxsackie virus, a kind of enterovirus that causes an especially obnoxious cold.
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In addition to his research on polio, for which he won the Nobel Prize, Weller also contributed to treating schistosomiasis, and Coxsackie viruses.
