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Dear Editor, Coxsackievirus is a ribonucleic acid virus belonging to the Picornaviridae family and the Enterovirus genus. It can be identified through a diagnostic real-time polymerase chain reaction. So far, more than 20 serotypes in group A and 6 serotypes in group B have been recognized. The majority of the patients in group B present minor symptoms such as fever, headache, and diarrhea [1]. Acute flaccid myelitis refers to a polio-like illness defined by acute flaccid limb weakness with a gray matter lesion of the spinal cord appearing in the spinal magnetic resonance image [2]. Hereby, we report a case of whole gray matter myelitis of the entire spinal cord resulting in acute flaccid myelitis with an identified coxsackievirus B1 infection.