Hand, foot, and mouth disease in China, 2008-12: An epidemiological study

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 308-318

  Xing, Weijia ^a   Liao, Qiaohong ^a   Viboud, Cécile ^b   Zhang, Jing ^a   Sun, Junling ^a   Wu, Joseph T ^c   Chang, Zhaorui ^a   Liu, Fengfeng ^a   Fang, Vicky J ^c   Zheng, Yingdong ^d   Cowling, Benjamin J ^c   Varma, Jay K ^e   Farrar, Jeremy J ^f,g,h,i   Leung, Gabriel M ^c   Yu, Hongjie ^a  

^a CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

^e NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE   (United States)

^f OXFORD UNIVERSITY CLINICAL RESEARCH UNIT   (Viet Nam)

^g UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^h NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

ⁱ WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHINA; DISEASE REGISTRY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ENTEROVIRUS; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HAND FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPE;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHINA; ENTEROVIRUS; ENTEROVIRUS A, HUMAN; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HAND, FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MALE; RAIN; SEASONS; SEROTYPING; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84896492664     PISSN: 14733099     EISSN: 14744457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(13)70342-6     Document Type: Article

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