Pleurodynia Associated with Echo Virus Type 8

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 . . .