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C oxsackieviruses A GENERAL UPDATE INFECTIOUS AGENTS AND PATHOGENESIS Series Editors: Mauro Bendinelli, University of Pisa Herman Friedman, University of South Florida COXSACKIEVIR USES A General Update Edited by Mauro Bendinelli and Herman Friedman MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS Interactions with the Immune System Edited by Mauro Bendinelli and Herman Friedman C oxsackieviruses A GENERAL UPDATE Edited by MAURO BENDINELLI University of Pisa Pisa, Italy and HERMAN FRIEDMAN University of South Florida Tampa, Florida Plenum Press. New York and London Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Coxsackieviruses: a general update. (Infectious agents and pathogenesis) Includes bibliographies and index. 1. Coxsackievirus infections. 2. Coxsackieviruses. I. Bendinelli, Mauro. II. Friedman, Herman, 1931- . III. Series. [DNLM: 1. Coxsackievirus Infections. 2. Coxsackie- viruses. QW 168.5.P4 C879] QR201. C65C69 1988 616'.0194 88-4234 ISBN 978-1-4757-0249-1 ISBN 978-1-4757-0247-7 (eBook) DOl 10.1007/978-1-4757-0247-7 © 1988 Plenum Press, New York Softcover reprint of the hardcover 18t edition 1988 A Division of Plenum Publishing Corporation 233 Spring Street, New York, N.Y. 10013 All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording, or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher Contributors FAKHRY ASSAADt • Communicable Diseases Division, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland FULVIO BASOLO • Department of Pathology, University of Pisa, 1-56100 Pisa, Italy KIRK W. BEISEL • Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia 30322 J. ELEANOR BELL • Enterovirus Reference (Scotland) Laboratory, Regional Virus Laboratory, Ruchill Hospital, Glasgow G20 9NB, Scotland MAURO BENDINELLI • Institute of Epidemiology, Hygiene and Virology, University of Pisa, 1-56100 Pisa, Italy MARIA R. CAPOBIANCHI • Institute of Virology, University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy NAN DO K. CHATTERJEE • Wadsworth Center for Laboratories and Research, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York 12201 PIER GIULIO CONALDI • Institute of Epidemiology, Hygiene and Virology, University of Pisa, 1-56100 Pisa, Italy RICHARD L. CROWELL • Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Hahnemann University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102 FERDINANDO DIANZANI • Institute of Virology, University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy RUDIGER DORRIES • Institute for Virology and Immunobiology, University of Wiirzburg, D-8700 Wiirzburg, Federal Republic of Germany tDeceased. v VI CONTRIB UTORS KARIN ESTEVES • Epidemiology and Management Support Services, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland GIOVANNI FEDERICO • Department of Pediatrics, University of Pisa, 1-56100 Pisa, Italy CHARLES J. GAUNTT • Department of Microbiology, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio. Texas 78284 NORMAN R. GRIST • Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Scotland; Communicable Diseases Unit, Ruchill Hospital, Glasgow G20 9NB, Scotland G. HAMMOND • Cadham Provincial Laboratory, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3C 3Y 1, Canada KUO-HOM LEE HSU • Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Hahnemann University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102 SALLY ANN HUBER • Department of Pathology, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont 05405 REINHARD KANDOLF • Department of Virology, Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, D-8033 Martinsried; Department of Internal Medicine I, Klinikum Grosshadern, University of Munich, D-8000 Munich 70, Federal Republic of Germany MARK H. KAPLAN • Division of Infectious Disease ,md Immunology, North Shore University Hospital, Manhasset, New York 11030; Cornell University Medical College, New York, New York lO021 BURTON J. LANDAU • Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Hahnemann University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102 A. MARTIN LERNER • Wayne State University, Division of Infectious Diseases, Hutzel Hospital, Detroit, Michigan 48201 ROGER M. LORIA • Departments of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Virginia Commonwealth University; School of Basic Health Sciences, Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia 23298 BRIAN W. J. MAHY • Animal Virus Research Institute, Pirbright, Woking, Surrey GU24 ONF, England DONATELLA MATTEUCCI • Institute of Epidemiology, Hygiene and Virology, University of Pisa, I-56lO0 Pisa, Italy T AKASHI ONODERA • Laboratory of Viral Immunology, National Institute of Animal Health, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305, Japan MARK A. P ALLANSCH • Division of Viral Diseases, Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control, U.S. Public Health Service, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Atlanta, Georgia 30333 CONTRIBUTORS VII BELLUR S. PRABHAKAR • Laboratory of Oral Medicine, National Institute of Dental Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892 DANIEL REID • Communicable Diseases Unit, Ruchill Hospital, Glasgow G20 9NB, Scotland MILAGROS P. REYES • Wayne State University, Division of Infectious Diseases, Hutzel Hospital, Detroit, Michigan 48201 GIOVANNI ROCCHI • Infectious Diseases Clinic, Department of Public Health, Second University of Rome, 00191 Rome, Italy NOEL R. ROSE • Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, The Johns Hopkins University, School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21205 NATHALIE J. SCHMIDT • Viral and Rickettsial Disease Laboratory, Division of Laboratories, California State Department of Health Services, Berkeley, California 94704 DAVID P. SCHNURR • Center for Advanced Medical Technology, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California 94132; Viral and Rickettsial Disease Laboratory, Division of Laboratories, California State Department of Health Services, Berkeley, California 94704 MAGGIE SCHULTZ • Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Hahnemann University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102 ANTONIO TONIOLO • Institute of Microbiology and Virology, University of Sassari Medical School, 07100 Sassari, Italy STEVEN TRACY • Department of Pathology and Microbiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska 68105 ANTONIO VOLPI • Infectious Diseases Clinic, Department of Public Health, Second University of Rome, 00191 Rome, Italy Preface to the Series The mechanisms of disease production by infectious agents are present ly the focus of an unprecedented flowering of studies. The field has undoubtedly received impetus from the considerable advances recently made in the understanding of the structure, biochemistry, and biology of viruses, bacteria, fungi, and other parasites. Another contributing factor is our improved knowledge of immune responses and other adap tive or constitutive mechanisms by which hosts react to infection. Fur thermore, recombinant DNA technology, monoclonal antibodies, and other newer methodologies have provided the technical tools for exam ining questions previously considered too complex to be successfully tackled. The most important incentive of all is probably the regenerated idea that infection might be the initiating event in many clinical entities presently classified as idiopathic or of uncertain origin. Infectious pathogenesis research holds great promise. As more in formation is uncovered, it is becoming increasingly apparent that our present knowledge of the pathogenic potential of infectious agents is often limited to the most noticeable effects, which sometimes represent only the tip of the iceberg. For example, it is now well appreciated that pathologic processes caused by infectious agents may emerge clinically after an incubation of decades and may result from genetic, immu nologic, and other indirect routes more than from the infecting agent in itself. Thus, there is a general expectation that continued investigation will lead to the isolation of new agents of infection, the identification of hitherto unsuspected etiologic correlations, and, eventually, more effec tive approaches to prevention and therapy. Studies on the mechanisms of disease caused by infectious agents demand a breadth of understanding across many specialized areas, as well as much co-operation between clinicians and experimentalists. The IX x PREFACE TO THE SERIES series Infectious Agents and Pathogenesis is intended not only to document the state of the art in this fascinating and challenging field but also to help lay bridges among diverse areas and people. M. Bendinelli H. Friedman Preface It is now just 40 years since coxsackieviruses were first isolated by Dalldorf and Sickles in the "eponymous" town of Coxsackie, New York. Yet the overall contribution of coxsackieviruses to clinically evident dis ease of humans is still largely an open problem. Following their discov ery, coxsackieviruses were under intense clinical and laboratory scrutiny for a long time. Because of their relationship to polioviruses, the under standing of their structure, biochemistry, biology, and epidemiology ad vanced rapidly as a result of the formidable efforts that eventually led to the defeat of poliomyelitis. The ability of these viruses to infect mice permitted dissection of their pathogenicity in an experimental host and elucidation of conditions that influence its expression. Coxsackieviruses have been progressively associated with an increasing array of widely diverse human diseases. However, only some of the suggested causal correlations have been substantiated with satisfactory certainty. For others, conclusive evidence has so far resisted investigation. Most impor tant, among the latter are chronic maladies, such as dilated car diomyopathy and juvenile diabetes, that demand consideration. In recent times, there has been a partial eclipse of the subject of coxsackieviruses in the medical literature. In addition to the difficulties encountered in pinpointing their pathogenic potential, possible reasons include the general decline of interest in enteroviruses, which ensued after the conquest of poliomyelitis, and the continuous appearance in the limelight of new, more esoteric, and therefore more "appealing" viruses. An additional factor was probably the realization that all distinc tions within the Enterovirus genus of Picornaviridae are arbitrary and the consequent naming of newly identified serotypes as enterovirus (fol lowed by a number). Although taxonomically correct, this decision has Xl

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