Human enteroviruses (e.g. Coxsackie, echovirus) are common causes of respiratory illness, meningitis, rashes, and myocarditis, and often present as “enteroviral” pneumonia or bronchiolitis in children. Detecting enterovirus helps diagnose outbreaks and rule out other causes (e.g. distinguishing enterovirus D68 vs rhinovirus in clinical syndromes). Charlton et al. 2018, Sanchez et al 2023).
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