enteric virus infection
a disease produced by one of the polio, Cocksackie, or echoviruses (called enteroviruses), which are members of the picornavirus family. Such infections include poliomyelitis, aseptic meningitis, herpangina, and myocarditis. The viruses have been classed as enteric because they multiply in the human gastrointestinal tract. Also called enteroviral infection.