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SUBMITTER: Nguyen VH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4265048 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
New microbes and new infections 20140918 6
Enterovirus A71 (EV-A71) and coxsackievirus A16 (CV-A16) are major aetiological agents of hand, foot and mouth disease in Asia. We established the first genomic characterization of strains isolated in 2011 from Lao patients. Isolates were related to EV-A71 genotype C4 and CV-A16 genotype B1a that circulated in neighbouring countries during the same period. This confirms the regional character of hand, foot and mouth disease epidemiology and makes plausible the occurrence of severe disease in the ...[more]