1. The 2022 outbreak and the pathobiology of the coxsackie virus [hand foot and mouth disease] in India.
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Chavan NA, Lavania M, Shinde P, Sahay R, Joshi M, Yadav PD, Tikute S, Waghchaure R, Ashok M, Gupta A, Mittal M, Khan V, Fomda BA, Ahmad M, Tiwari VP, Pote P, Dhongade AR, Mohanty A, Mohan K, Kumar M, and Bhardwaj A
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- Child, Humans, Pandemics, Disease Outbreaks, India epidemiology, China epidemiology, Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease epidemiology, COVID-19 epidemiology, Enterovirus genetics, Enterovirus Infections epidemiology
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Outbreaks of HFMD in children aged <5 years have been reported worldwide and the major causative agents are Coxsackievirus (CV) A16, enterovirus (EV)-A71 and recently CVA6. In India, HFMD is a disease that is not commonly reported. The purpose of the study was to identify the enterovirus type(s) associated with large outbreak of Hand, foot, and mouth disease during COVID-19 pandemic in 2022. Four hundred and twenty five clinical samples from 196-suspected cases were collected from different parts of the country. This finding indicated the emergence of CVA6 in HFMD along with CVA16, soon after the gradual easing of non-pharmaceutical interventions during-pandemic COVID-19 and the relevance of continued surveillance of circulating enterovirus types in the post-COVID pandemic era., (Copyright © 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.)
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- 2023
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