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Hand, foot and mouth disease caused by coxsackievirus A6, Beijing, 2013.
The Pediatric infectious disease journal - 1 Dec 2014
Hongyan Gu, Chengjie Ma, Qiaozhi Yang, Wenhao Hua, Juan Li, Lin Pang, Yanli Xu, Hongshan Wei, Xingwang Li
Abstract excerpt
Specimens and clinical data were collected from 243 hand, foot and mouth disease patients in Beijing in 2013. In total, 130 stool specimens were genotyped for enterovirus. Hand, foot and mouth disease was mainly detected in suburban areas and at the edges of urban areas between May and August. Coxsackievirus (CV) A6 replaced enterovirus (EV) 71 and CVA16, becoming the main causative agent of hand, foot and mouth...
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