Characterization of VP1 gene of coxsackievirus A16 prevalent among hand foot mouth disease suffered children in Taizhou, P. R. China, between 2010 and 2013.

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A total of 453 strains of Coxsackievirus A16 (CV-A16) were screened out of 1,509 hand-foot-mouth disease (HFMD) samples collected in Taizhou during the period from 2010 to 2013. And between first quarter of 2011 and first quarter of 2013, an outbreak of CV-A16 was found among the HFMD sufferers in Taizhou. Phylogenic analysis of VP1 sequences indicated a major CV-A16 sub-group in Taizhou, whose change pattern of...

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