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Published on: July 15, 2019
Acute transverse myelitis due to Coxsackie virus
Ioannis Starakis1, Markos Marangos, Sofia Giali
1Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases Section, University Hospital, Patras, Greece. istarakis@yahoo.com
Abstract:
The case of a young adult male, who after a short upper respiratory illness presented with fever and alarming progressive neurological deficits, is reported. The diagnostic puzzle and the difficulty in establishing a diagnosis are reported. Acute transverse myelitis is a rare clinical manifestation of Coxsackie virus infection, and very few cases of transverse myelitis caused by serotype B have been reported in the English literature. This is a case report of an unusual acute transverse myelitis caused by Coxsackie B2 infection.
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