Coxsackievirus A6 and hand, foot and mouth disease: Three case reports of familialchild-to-immunocompetent adult transmission and a literature review

Case Reports in Dermatology

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 203-209

  Kaminska, Karolina ^a   Martinetti, Gladys ^b   Lucchini, Renzo ^b   Kaya, Gürkan ^c   Mainetti, Carlo ^a  

^a Bellinzona Regional Hospital   (Switzerland)

^b Laboratories of Multisite Hospital of Ticino (EOC)   (Switzerland)

^c GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Coxsackievirus A6; Enterovirus; Hand, foot and mouth disease; Immunocompetent adult; Onychomadesis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONVALESCENCE; COXSACKIE VIRUS A; DISEASE COURSE; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FEMALE; HAND FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; LUNG EDEMA; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS; VIRUS MENINGITIS; VIRUS MYOCARDITIS; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; COXSACKIE VIRUS; COXSACKIEVIRUS A10; COXSACKIEVIRUS A6; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; ENTEROVIRUS 71; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FOLLOW UP; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; MOUTH CAVITY; ORAL SPRAY; PAPULOVESICULAR RASH; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RUBELLA VIRUS; SKIN BIOPSY; SORE THROAT; YOUNG ADULT;

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; LIDOCAINE; PARACETAMOL; VIRUS PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

EID: 84884235020     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16626567     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000354533     Document Type: Review

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