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Epidemiology of enterovirus 71 in the Netherlands, 1963 to 2008.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Sept 2009
van der Sanden Sabine, Koopmans Marion, Uslu Gökhan, van der Avoort Harrie
Abstract excerpt
The incidence of enterovirus 71 (EV71) infection has greatly increased in the Asian Pacific region since 1997. Several large outbreaks, caused by different subgenogroups of EV71, occurred with high rates of morbidity and a substantial number of deaths. In 2007, 58 cases of EV71 infection requiring hospitalization were reported in The Netherlands after a period of low endemicity of 21 years. These events triggered...
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