Epidemic characteristics of hand, foot, and mouth disease in southern China, 2013: Coxsackievirus A6 has emerged as the predominant causative agent

Journal of Infection

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 299-303

  Li, Jin Lin ^a   Yuan, Jing ^b   Yang, Fan ^a   Wu, Zhi Qiang ^a   Hu, Yong Feng ^a   Xue, Ying ^a   Zhou, Bo Ping ^b   Jin, Qi ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PATHOGEN BIOLOGY   (China)

^b SHENZHEN THIRD PEOPLE S HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN VP1; VIRUS RNA;

CHILD; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVULSION; COXSACKIE VIRUS; COXSACKIE VIRUS A6; COXSACKIE VIRUS INFECTION; ENTEROVIRUS 71; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FEVER; GENOTYPE; HAND FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE; HUMAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; THROAT CULTURE; TREND STUDY; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VOMITING; CITY; CLASSIFICATION; ENTEROVIRUS; GENETICS; HAND, FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE; INCIDENCE; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; VIROLOGY;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHINA; CITIES; ENTEROVIRUS; EPIDEMICS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOTYPE; HAND, FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; RNA, VIRAL;

EID: 84922415004     PISSN: 01634453     EISSN: 15322742     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinf.2014.04.001     Document Type: Letter

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