Epidemiology and genetic characteristics of coxsackievirus A16 associated with hand-foot-and-mouth disease in Yantai city, China in 2018-2021

• Main Authors: Zhenlu Sun (Author), Ji Wang (Author), Xin Chi (Author), Peihua Niu (Author), Ruiqing Zhang (Author), Qiao Gao (Author), Yong Zhang (Author), Xuejun Ma (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2023-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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In 2008, China launched a national surveillance system for hand-foot-and-mouth disease (HFMD). Several million cases of HFMD are reported every year, coxsackievirus A16 (CVA16) was the leading cause of HFMD epidemic in Yantai city, China in recent years, but the information of epidemiology and molec...