COMMON COLD

• Common cold is often called rhinitis
• Rhin means _____

  Nose
• symptoms are usually due to the _____ _____ to the virus, not any particular _____ ______

  immune response, virulence factors
• The common cold is caused by one of over 200 different kinds of viruses.
• Causative agents:

  • 99 serotypes of rhinoviruses
  • coronaviruses
  • adenoviruses
  • respiratory synctial virus (can be more serious in infants)
• Since 2014 there has been another enterovirus, called enterovirus-D68 (EV-D68), that has caused cold-like symptoms in children and that seems to sometimes progress into polio-like symptoms.
• Transmission:

  • indirect contact
  • droplet contact
• No vaccine, no specific chemotherapeutic agent
• Treatment

  for symptoms only