What is the term for pain in the tissue layers that line the lungs?
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Epidemic pleurodynia is an infection caused by group B coxsackieviruses, which is spread through fecal-oral contamination. Persons infected with the virus experience a similar type of pain in the pleura as those with pleurodynia not caused by an infection.
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