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Molecular epidemiology of enterovirus 71 in Taiwan.
Archives of virology - 1 Jan 2001
Chu P Y, Lin K H, Hwang K P, Chou L C, Wang C F, Shih S R, Wang J R, Shimada Y, Ishiko H
Abstract excerpt
Taiwan suffered a severe and widespread outbreak of enterovirus infection in 1998. More than 400 children were hospitalized, with seventy-eight fatalities due to central nerve system (CNS) involvement and cardiopulmonary collapse. Enterovirus 71 (EV71) was incriminated as the causative agent for the fatal cases. To understand the viral molecular epidemiology in this outbreak, fragments of 207-bp length of the VP4...
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