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TABLE 4-2. Waterborne Human Enteric Viruses and Known Associated Diseases
No. of Types
or Subtypes
Disease Entities Associated
with These Viruses
Group
Subgroup
Pathological Changes in Patients
Organs Where Virus Multiplies
Enterovirus
Poliovirus
3
Muscular paralysis
Aseptic meningitis
Febrile episode
Destruction of motor neurons
Inflammation of meninges from virus
Viremia and viral multiplication
Intestinal mucosa, spinal cord, brain
stem
Meninges
Intestinal mucosa and lymph
Echo virus
34
Aseptic meningitis
Muscular paralysis
Guillain-Barre's Syndrome
1
Exanthem
Respiratory diseases
Same as above
Same as above
Destruction of motor neurons
Dilation and rupture of blood vessels
Viral invasion of parenchymiatous of respiratory
tracts and secondary inflamatory responses
Same as above
Same as above
Spinal cord
Skin
Diarrhea
Epidemic myalgia
Pericarditis and myocarditis
Not well known
Viral invasion of cells with secondary inflam-
matory responses
Same as above
Pericardial and myocardial tissue
Hepatitis
Liver parenchyma
Coxsackie
virus
24
Herpangina
2
Virus invasion of mucosa with secondary in-
flammation
Mouth
A
Acute lymphatic pharyngitis
Aseptic meningitis
Muscular paralysis
Hand-foot-mouth disease
3
Respiratory disease
Infantile diarrhea
Hepatitis
Pericarditis and myocarditis
Same as above
Same as above
Same as above
Viral invasion of skin cells of hands-feet-mouth
Same as above
Viral invasion of cells of mucosa
Viral incasion of liver cells
Same as above
Lymph nodes and pharynx
Same as above
Same as above
Skin of hands-feet, and much of mouth
Same as above
Intestinal mucosa
Parenchyma cells of liver
Same as above
