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== Enterovirus == [[Enterovirus]] is a genus of positive single-stranded [[RNA virus|RNA viruses]]. Viruses in the enterovirus genus include [[Coxsackie A virus|coxsackievirus A]], [[Coxsackie B virus|coxsackievirus B]], [[echovirus]], [[poliovirus]] and [[rhinovirus]], though only coxsackievirus B and echovirus have been linked to [[ME/CFS]].{{Citation needed}} Person-to-person transmission of enteroviruses occurs through fecal-oral and oral-oral routes.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1134374-overview#a5 | title = Dermatologic Manifestations of Enteroviral Infections (Medscape article) | last = Alsina-Gibert | first = Mercè | date = | website = Medscape |archive-url=|archive-date=|url-status=|access-date=|quote=Enteroviruses spread from person to person by either oral-oral or fecal-oral routes.}}</ref> Enteroviruses are responsible for a range of acute infections and illnesses. They cause about 10 to 15 million infections and tens of thousands of hospitalizations each year in the United States.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cdc.gov/non-polio-enterovirus/index.html | title = Non-Polio Enterovirus | last = | first = | date = |website=CDC Website|archive-url=|archive-date=|url-status=|access-date=|quote=Non-Polio Enterovirus. Non-polio enteroviruses are very common. They cause about 10 to 15 million infections and tens of thousands of hospitalizations each year in the United States. Most people who get infected with these viruses do not get sick or they only have mild illness, like the common cold.}}</ref> But acute enterovirus [[infection]]s can often be mild (like a common cold) or [[asymptomatic]] <nowiki/>when contracted.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/217146-overview | title = Enteroviruses (Medscape article) | last =Schwartz | first = Robert A | date = | website = Medscape |archive-url=|archive-date=|url-status=|access-date=|quote=More than 90% of infections caused by nonpolio entero viruses are asymptomatic or result only in an undifferentiated febrile illness.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/216564-overview#a5 | title = Echovirus Infection (Medscape article) | last =Choudhary | first = Madhu Chhanda | date = | website = Medscape |archive-url=|archive-date=|url-status=|access-date=|quote=More than 90% of echoviral infections are asymptomatic.}}</ref> Though normally only capable of acute infections, under certain circumstances enteroviruses can create chronic infections, and ongoing enterovirus infections have been found in ME/CFS and several other chronic illnesses in including [[dilated cardiomyopathy]], and type 1 [[diabetes]]. Some researchers posit that such persistent enterovirus infections may be a cause of these diseases.
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