Enterovirus Infection in Children

Abstract

Enterovirus is a small RNA virus classified in the family picornaviridae. Genus enterovirus includes polioviruses, echoviruses, coxsackieviruses A and B, and enteroviruses. The most common manifestation is a nonspecific febrile illness. Other manifestations include pharyngitis, herpangina, hand-foot-mouth disease, nonspecific exanthema, aseptic meningitis, acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis, encephalitis/encephalopathy, acute flaccid paralysis, myopericarditis, and pleurodynia. In this article, etiology, epidemiology, clinical manifestation, diagnosis test, control measures, and treatment of enterovirus infection in children are discussed.