作者: Steven Tracy

The group B coxsackieviruses have a long and colorful history, dating to the early days of virology as we now know it. In the late 1940s, ultracentrifugation and electron microscopy were new, high-te …

S. TRACY Late in the 1940s, a virus was isolated from a young patient with a flaccid par- alysis in the sleepy Hudson River town of Coxsackie in the state of New York. Within the next few years, it w …