Abstract
Hand-foot-and-mouth disease (HFMD) is an acute infectious disease caused by a variety of enteroviruses which commonly affects infants and preschoolers. It is characterized by fever, skin rashes, and/or herpes at hand, foot, and oral cavity as well as herpetic angina. The condition is rarely complicated by aseptic meningitis, brainstem encephalitis, neurogenic pulmonary edema, acute flaccid paralysis, and myocarditis. The pathogens inducing HFMD mainly include echovirus, Coxsackie virus group A (serotype 4, 5, 9, 10, and 16) and group B (serotype 2 and 5), and enterovirus 71 (EV71). Among these pathogens, EV71 and Cox A16 are the most common.
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Jing, Y. et al. (2016). Hand-Foot-and-Mouth Disease. In: Lu, PX., Zhou, BP. (eds) Diagnostic Imaging of Emerging Infectious Diseases. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-7363-8_7
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