Hand, foot, and mouth disease in China, 2008-12: an epidemiological study.

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Abstract

Hand, foot, and mouth disease is a common childhood illness caused by enteroviruses. Increasingly, the disease has a substantial burden throughout east and southeast Asia. To better inform vaccine and other interventions, we characterised the epidemiology of hand, foot, and mouth disease in China on the basis of enhanced surveillance.

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Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Lancet Infect Dis

Title: The Lancet. Infectious diseases

Publisher: Elsevier BV

ISSN (Electronic): 1474-4457

ISSN (Print): 1473-3099

Publication date (Electronic): Apr 2014

Volume: 14

Issue: 4

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[1 ] Division of Infectious Disease, Key Laboratory of Surveillance and Early-warning on Infectious Disease, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China (W Xing PhD, Q Liao MD, J Zhang MD, J Sun PhD, Zhaorui Chang MD, F Liu MD, H Yu MD); Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA (C Viboud PhD); Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (B J Cowling PhD, J T Wu PhD, V J Fang MPhil, Prof G M Leung MD); School of Public Health, Peking University, Health Science Center, Beijing, China (Y Zheng PhD); New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, New York, USA (J K Varma MD); Oxford University Clinical Research Unit - Wellcome Trust Major Overseas Programmes, Vietnam (Prof J J Farrar PhD); ISARIC, Centre for Tropical Medicine, University of Oxford, Churchill Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom (Prof J J Farrar PhD); Department of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore (Prof J J Farrar PhD); The Li Ka Shing Oxford Global Health Programme and Wellcome Trust (Prof J J Farrar PhD).

Article

Mid ID: NIHMS584657

DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(13)70342-6

PMC ID: 4035015

PubMed ID: 24485991

SO-VID: 80385ea3-f5d2-4c93-b824-068a72030deb

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