ABSTRACT
The genus Enterovirus (enteric meaning intestinal, a name reflecting the original finding about its main route of transmission) encompasses a diverse group of small positive-sense single-stranded RNA viruses that are associated with several human and mammalian diseases, including epidemic pleurodynia (Bornholm disease), hand-foot-and-mouth disease (HFMD), herpangina, poliomyelitis, encephalitis, myocarditis, acute heart failure, and sepsis.
