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Coxsackievirus B3

Taxonomy pass, October 2026

ICTV species Enterovirus betacoxsackie, family Picornaviridae. What it is, and what exists against it.

At a glance

AbbreviationCVB3, CVA9, CVB1, CVB2
ICTV speciesEnterovirus betacoxsackie
FamilyPicornaviridae
Baltimore classIV — (+)ssRNA
Human infectionHuman infection recorded; pattern not classified

Also called: coxsackievirus A9; coxsackievirus B1; coxsackievirus B2; coxsackievirus B4; coxsackievirus B5; coxsackievirus B6; echovirus 1; echovirus 8; echovirus 2; echovirus 3; echovirus 4; echovirus 5 and 53 more

Riboviria › Pisuviricota › Pisoniviricetes › Picornavirales › Picornaviridae › Enterovirus

What it is

Taxonomy copied from ICTV MSL41.v1 / VMR_MSL41.v1.20260729.xlsx. These ranks are not hand-edited; a correction means re-running the fetch against a newer release.

RealmRiboviria
KingdomOrthornavirae
PhylumPisuviricota
ClassPisoniviricetes
OrderPicornavirales
FamilyPicornaviridae
SubfamilyEnsavirinae
GenusEnterovirus
ICTV identifierICTV19991248
NCBI taxon3428502
Exemplar isolateM88483

Host evidence

Counts of nucleotide records annotated with that host. Evidence of provenance, not a statement of host range.

Where it occurs

Not searched yet. No country-level occurrence data has been curated for this virus. The WHO reported-case data on this site covers a limited set of diseases; a virus outside it gets no map rather than an empty one.

What it does

Not searched yet. Burden, severity and transmissibility figures have not been curated for this virus yet. When they are, each will carry the exact sentence from its source.

Vaccines

Not searched yet. No vaccine for this virus appears in the vaccine pipeline dataset. That dataset tracks candidates and licensed products the site follows; it is not a complete register of every licensed vaccine, so this is not evidence that none exists.

Antivirals

Not searched yet. No US-approved antiviral for this virus was found in the openFDA drug label endpoint. Only US labels were searched, and only drugs the FDA classes as antivirals.

Antibodies and immune globulins

Not searched yet. No US-approved antiviral antibody for this virus was found in the openFDA drug label endpoint.

Approval status is not a treatment recommendation. Dosing and eligibility are on the label and in national guidelines. This page does not give medical advice and does not render dosing. A development stage is not a measure of how well something works.

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Cite this page. Coxsackievirus B3. Vaccine Data Navigator, Open Source Medicine Foundation. Built 31 October 2026 from the ICTV Virus Metadata Resource (MSL41) and NCBI Taxonomy/GenBank. https://vaccinedatanavigator.org/virus-navigator/viruses/coxsackievirus-b3.html

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