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Emerging Hand Foot Mouth Disease in Bangladeshi Children- First Report of Rapid Appraisal on Pocket Outbreak: Clinico-epidemiological Perspective Implicating Public Health Emergency
2019-06-28
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<h4>Background: </h4> Hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) is a common contagious disease among children under 5 years, particularly in the Asia-Pacific-region. We report a localized outbreak of childhood HFMD for the first time from Bangladesh, diagnosed only based on clinical features due to lack in laboratory-diagnostic facilities. <h4>Methods: </h4>: Following the World Health Organization’s case-definition...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 661494d4-046c-549d-9965-aa0b7e94236d
- DOI
- 10.12688/f1000research.15170.3
