Coxsackie
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Coxsackie may refer to:
- Coxsackie (village), New YorkCoxsackie (village), New YorkCoxsackie is a village in Greene County, New York, USA. The population was 2,813 at the 2010 census. The village name is a native word mak-kachs-hack-ing, and when purchased by the Dutch settlers was written as Koxhackung...
- Coxsackie (town), New YorkCoxsackie (town), New YorkCoxsackie is a town in Greene County, New York, United States. The population was 8,918 at the 2010 census. The name of the town is said to derived from a Native American term, but it has various translations ....
- CoxsackievirusCoxsackievirusCoxsackievirus is a virus that belongs to a family of non enveloped linear positive-sense ssRNA viruses, Picornaviridae and the genus Enterovirus, which also includes poliovirus and echovirus. Enteroviruses are among the most common and important human pathogens and ordinarily its members are...
-- any of a group of 23 Coxsackie A virusCoxsackie A virusCoxsackie A virus is a cytolytic coxsackie virus of the Picornaviridae family, an enterovirus .-Diseases:...
es and 6 Coxsackie BCoxsackie BCoxsackie B is the name of a group of six serotypes of pathogenic enteroviruses that trigger illness ranging from mild gastrointestinal distress to full-fledged pericarditis and myocarditis.-Geographic distribution:...
viruses.