Atypical hand, foot, and mouth disease: Eczema coxsackium can also occur in adults

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1043-

  Harris, Patrick N A ^a,c,d   Wang, Alvin D ^a   Yin, Mo ^a   Lee, Chun Kiat ^b   Archuleta, Sophia ^a,d  

^a University Medicine Cluster   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d Dept Medicine Endocrinol Diabet   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ASTHMA; CASE REPORT; COXSACKIE VIRUS; ECZEMA; ECZEMA COXSACKIUM; ENTEROVIRUS; FEMALE; FEVER; HAND FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE; HUMAN; LETTER; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHINORRHEA; SORE THROAT; THROAT CULTURE; VESICULAR RASH; CLASSIFICATION; COMPLICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FECES; GENETICS; HAND, FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PATHOLOGY; PHARYNX; RASH; SKIN; VIROLOGY;

ADULT; ECZEMA; ENTEROVIRUS; EXANTHEMA; FECES; FEMALE; HAND, FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE; HUMANS; PHARYNX; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SKIN;

EID: 84908293194     PISSN: 14733099     EISSN: 14744457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(14)70976-4     Document Type: Letter

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