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An epidemic of hand, foot, and mouth disease caused by coxsackievirus a6 in Osaka city, Japan, in 2017

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases (2019) 72(5) 334-336
DOI: 10.7883/yoken.JJID.2018.532
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Abstract

The second largest epidemic of hand, foot, and mouth disease since 1982 occurred in 2017, which involved 6,173 cases in Osaka City, Japan. The main causative agent was coxsackievirus A6 (CV-A6). Phylogenetic analysis revealed that the detected CV-A6 strains belonged to genetic groups A3 and A4 in clade A.

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Kanbayashi, D., Kaida, A., Hirai, Y., Yamamoto, S. P., Fujimori, R., Okada, M., … Iritani, N. (2019). An epidemic of hand, foot, and mouth disease caused by coxsackievirus a6 in Osaka city, Japan, in 2017. Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases, 72(5), 334–336. https://doi.org/10.7883/yoken.JJID.2018.532

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