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Can coxsackie b virus remain hidden and able to reactivate in your body for years?

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Dr. Hiep Le answered

Specializes in Nephrology and Dialysis

Coxsackie B virus is usually only capable of acute infection that is rapidly cleared by the adaptive immune response. However, a mutated quasispecies of Coxackie B virus is capable of causing persistent infection in human tissues, and such infections have been found in chronic myocarditis or dilated cardiomyopathy. Please note that this is different from latency then reactivation like herpes.

Answered 2/22/2022

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