Epidemic of hand, foot and mouth disease in Gifu Prefecture in 1978.

Isolation of enterovirus 71 from patients with hand, foot and mouth disease in a local epidemic on March 2006, in Miyagi prefecture, Japan.

Hand, foot and mouth disease is an infectious disease commonly seen in children in the summer. Enterovirus 71 (EV71), one of the causative agents of hand, foot and mouth disease, causes more pronounced central nervous system complications than the other causative viruses. In this study, we investigated an outbreak of hand, foot and mouth disease that occurred in the northern region of Miyagi Pr...

Enterovirus detection status of patients with herpangina and hand, foot and mouth disease in epidemic season 2007, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.

A large-scale epidemic of hand, foot and mouth disease associated with enterovirus 71 infection in Japan in 1978.

An epidemic of hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) took place throughout Japan in 1978. A total of 36,301 cases were reported and clinical symptoms were mostly typical of HFMD. Most patients were under five years of age. This communication deals with the summarized results of epidemiological informa tion from various laboratories on the incidence of HFMD. Enterovirus 71 is known to be associate...

Epidemic of hand, foot and mouth disease in Japan, 1972-1973: difference in epidemiologic and virologic features from the previous one.

Japan, 1969-1970, was reported in a previous publication (Tagaya and Moritsugu, 1973). In the following year, however, coxsackievirus A 16 (CA 16), the causative agent of the disease, seemed to have disappeared from the country; only one laboratory reported positive isolation of CA 16, but later it proved to have been due to misidentification as checked by the Department of Enteroviruses, Natio...

Development of an Indirect Enzyme-linked Immunosorbent Assay to Detect Antibodies against Serotype A2013 of Foot and Mouth Disease Virus in Cattle

Foot and mouth disease (FMD) is a contagious animal disease that causes irreparable damage to the economy of countries, including Iran in which this disease is a native one. Among the ways to combat FMD are vaccination and slaughter. Due to the specific situation of Iran, it is not possible to kill infected animals. Therefore, vaccination is the most important way to fight this disease. S...