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enterovirus 71

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enterovirus 71
Virology A virulent epidemic enterovirus serotype identified in 1969 in California Clinical Asymptomatic or diarrhea, rashes, hand-foot-mouth disease–vesicular lesions of hands, feet and oral mucosa, herpangina, aseptic meningitis, encephalitis, myocarditis, acute flaccid paralysis, rhombencephalitis, Guillain-Barré syndrome, rapidly fatal pulmonary edema, hemorrhage


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Hand, foot and mouth disease due to enterovirus 71 broke out among infants and young children in Fuyang city, Anhui Province, in early May.
About 400 of those cases have been blamed on enterovirus 71, or EV-71, one of several viruses that cause the illness.
Most cases of hand, foot and mouth disease in China this year have been blamed on enterovirus 71, which usually infects children.
 
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