Pleurodynia Associated with Echo Virus Type 8

Abstract

BORNHOLM disease, or pleurodynia, is generally associated with Group B Coxsackie viruses.¹ This group of viruses is also responsible for such diverse clinical syndromes as meningitis, encephalitis and myocarditis. Although Coxsackie viruses Group A, Types 4 and 6, have been isolated from patients with pleurodynia,^{2 , 3} Group B viruses have thus far been the agents most commonly associated with this syndrome.^{1 , 4 , 5} Certain members of the enterovirus family, the ECHO viruses, are still in search of disease.⁶ ECHO virus Type 8 is an example, with no heretofore proved association with human disease. The present report describes a clinical case of pleurodynia, which . . .