An Epidemic of Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease Caused by Coxsackievirus A6 in Osaka City, Japan, in 2017

Daiki Kanbayashi; Atsushi Kaida; Yuki Hirai; Seiji P Yamamoto; Ryoko Fujimori; Megumi Okada; Hideyuki Kubo; Nobuhiro Iritani

doi:10.7883/yoken.JJID.2018.532

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An Epidemic of Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease Caused by Coxsackievirus A6 in Osaka City, Japan, in 2017

Daiki Kanbayashi, Atsushi Kaida, Yuki Hirai, Seiji P Yamamoto, Ryoko Fujimori, Megumi Okada, Hideyuki Kubo, Nobuhiro Iritani

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Keywords: hand, foot, and mouth disease, coxsackievirus A6, Japan, viruses

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2019 Volume 72 Issue 5 Pages 334-336

DOI https://doi.org/10.7883/yoken.JJID.2018.532

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Abstract

The second largest epidemic of hand, foot, and mouth disease since 1982 occurred in 2017, which involved 6,173 cases in Osaka City, Japan. The main causative agent was coxsackievirus A6 (CV-A6). Phylogenetic analysis revealed that the detected CV-A6 strains belonged to genetic groups A3 and A4 in clade A.

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