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Enterovirus 71 infection in children with hand, foot, and mouth disease in Shanghai, China: epidemiology, clinical feature and diagnosis

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Title
Enterovirus 71 infection in children with hand, foot, and mouth disease in Shanghai, China: epidemiology, clinical feature and diagnosis
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Virology Journal, June 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12985-015-0308-2
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Ying Wang, Gang Zou, Aimei Xia, Xiangshi Wang, Jiehao Cai, Qianqian Gao, Shilin Yuan, Guimei He, Shuyi Zhang, Mei Zeng, Ralf Altmeyer

Abstract

In 2012 a large outbreak of hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD) widely spread over China, causing more than 2 million cases and 567 deaths. Our purpose was to characterize the major pathogens responsible for the 2012 HFMD outbreak and analyze the genetic characterization of the enterovirus 71 (EV71) strains in Shanghai; also, to analyze the dynamic patterns of neutralizing antibody (NAb) against EV71 and evaluate the diagnostic value of several methods for clinical detection of EV71. Clinical samples including stool, serum and CSF were collected from 396 enrolled HFMD inpatients during the peak seasons in 2012. We analyzed the molecular epidemiology, clinical feature, and diagnostic tests of EV71 infection. EV71 was responsible for 60.35 % of HFMD inpatients and 88.46 % of severe cases. The circulating EV71 strains belonged to subgenogroup C4a. The nucleotide sequences of VP1 between severe cases and uncomplicated cases shared 99.2 ~ 100 % of homology. Among 218 cases with EV71 infection, 211 (96.79 %) serum samples showed NAb positive against EV71 and NAb titer reached higher level 3 days after disease onset. Of 92 cases with EV71-associated meningitis or encephalitis, 5 (5.43 %) of 92 had EV71 RNA detected in CSF samples. The blood anti-EV71 IgM assay showed a sensitivity of 93.30 % and a specificity of 50 %. EV71 C4a remained the predominant subgenotype circulating in Shanghai. The severity of the EV71 infection is not associated with the virulence determinants in VP1. RT-PCR together with IgM detection can enhance the early diagnosis of severe EV71-associated HFMD.

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Country Count As %
Netherlands 1 2%
Unknown 55 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 10 18%
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 16%
Researcher 8 14%
Student > Master 6 11%
Student > Postgraduate 5 9%
Other 6 11%
Unknown 12 21%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 11 20%
Medicine and Dentistry 8 14%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 7 13%
Immunology and Microbiology 5 9%
Chemistry 2 4%
Other 8 14%
Unknown 15 27%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 29 June 2015.
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#14,685,107
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#1,780
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#145,877
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#29
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