Severe enterovirus A71 associated hand, foot and mouth disease, Vietnam, 2018: preliminary report of an impending outbreak.

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Categoria Primary study
GiornaleEuro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin
Year 2018
Since January 2018, over 53,000 hospitalisations and six deaths due to hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) have occurred across Vietnam with most cases from September onward. In a large tertiary referral hospital, Ho Chi Minh City, enterovirus A71 subgenogroup C4 was predominant, while B5 was only sporadically detected. The re-emergence of C4 after causing a severe HFMD outbreak with > 200 deaths in 2011-12 among susceptible young children raises concern of another impending severe outbreak.
Epistemonikos ID: 6efc2097e42e1287a6f9d76ae40a1548985543cf
First added on: Nov 23, 2021