Keith Stringer, MD

CILS-Muscle Infections
11-20-15
Objectives:

1. Explain, with selected examples, how multiple different etiologies lead to the presence of
leucocytes within muscle tissues.
2. Be aware that Coxsackieviruses have historically been the most common causes of infectious
myocarditis in the USA and that worldwide there are a variety of viruses, bacteria and
parasites (and non-infectious etiologies) underlying myocarditis.
Keywords:

acute inflammation

granuloma

skeletal muscle

abscess

myositis

cardiac muscle

chronic
inflammation

smooth muscle

muscularis

Suggested Reading:
Robbins Pathologic Basis of Disease Page 570-571 myocarditis, including table 12-13.
Robbins Pathologic Basis of Disease Page 91 (section titled suppurative or purulent
inflammation, abscess).