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Thrombophlebitis and upper respiratory tract virus infection
Author(s) -
Doerfler Walter
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
journal of medical virology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.782
H-Index - 121
eISSN - 1096-9071
pISSN - 0146-6615
DOI - 10.1002/jmv.20726
Subject(s) - rhinovirus , thrombophlebitis , common cold , virology , medicine , respiratory tract , virus , respiratory tract infections , upper respiratory tract infection , thrombosis , respiratory system , immunology
During an episode of thrombophlebitis, the 72‐year‐old correspondent came down with a common cold presumably, but not provenly, due to infection by one of the rhinoviruses. During the 96 hr period of coryza, all symptoms of thrombophlebitis vanished completely. There is experimental evidence that rhinovirus infections elicit cytokine production [Stöckl et al. (1999): J Clin Invest 104: 957–965], and that IL‐10 can assuage thrombosis in rats [Downing et al. (1998): J Immunol 161: 1471–1476]. J. Med. Virol. 78:1505–1506, 2006. © 2006 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.