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The Seroprevalence and Seroincidence of Enterovirus71 Infection in Infants and Children in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam
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Enterovirus 71 (EV71)-associated hand, foot and mouth disease has emerged as a serious public health problem in South East Asia over the last decade. To better understand the prevalence of EV71 infection, we determined EV71 seroprevalence and seroincidence amongst healthy infants and children in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam. In a cohort of 200 newborns, 55% of cord blood samples contained EV71 neutralizing antibodies and these decayed to undetectable levels by 6 months of age in 98% of infants....
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- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1371/journal.pone.0021116
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- Publisher:
- Public Library of Science
- Journal:
- PloS One More from this journal
- Volume:
- 6
- Issue:
- 7
- Pages:
- e21116
- Publication date:
- 2011-07-12
- Acceptance date:
- 2011-05-19
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1932-6203
- Pmid:
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21765891
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English
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pubs:166443
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- Tran et al
- Copyright date:
- 2011
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- © 2011 Tran et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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