epidemic pleurodynia


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Noun1.epidemic pleurodynia - an acute infectious disease occurring in epidemic form and featuring paroxysms of pain (usually in the chest)
Bornholm disease, diaphragmatic pleurisy, epidemic myalgia, myosis
epidemic disease - any infectious disease that develops and spreads rapidly to many people
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Epidemic pleurodynia (Bornholm disease), an acute febrile illness with myalgia caused by picornaviruses such as group B coxsackieviruses, is perhaps best known (24-26).
Several male patients in the Yonezawa outbreak also had orchitis, which is described as a symptom of epidemic pleurodynia (24) but may also be associated with systemic infection, although we have no evidence to support this hypothesis.
Epidemic myalgia in adults associated with human parechovirus type 3 infection, Yamagata, Japan, 2008

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