Hand, foot, and mouth disease outbreak and coxsackievirus A6, Northern Spain, 2011

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 676-677

  Montes, Milagrosa ^a,b   Artieda, Juncal ^c,d   Piñeiro, Luis D ^a   Gastesi, Marina ^d   Diez Nieves, Inmaculada ^d,e   Cilla, Gustavo ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL DONOSTIA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^c Public Health Division of Gipuzkoa   (Spain)

^d CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

^e Health Centre of Osakidetza Basque Health Service   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA; VIRUS PROTEIN;

COXSACKIE VIRUS; DAY CARE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENTEROVIRUS; GENOTYPE; HAND FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LETTER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PAPULOVESICULAR RASH; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VIROLOGY; VIRUS INFECTION; CLASSIFICATION; COXACKIEVIRUS; EPIDEMIC; GENETICS; INFANT; INFECTIONS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NEWBORN; OUTBREAK; PHYLOGENY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SPAIN; VIRUS;

COXACKIEVIRUS; HAND FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE; INFECTIONS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; OUTBREAK; SPAIN; VIRUSES;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENTEROVIRUS; ENTEROVIRUS A, HUMAN; HAND, FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; PHYLOGENY; RNA, VIRAL; SPAIN; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 84875362268     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1904.121589     Document Type: Letter

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