Journal article
Population based hospitalization burden of laboratory-confirmed hand, foot and mouth disease caused by multiple enterovirus serotypes in Southern China
- Abstract:
-
Background
Hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) is spread widely across Asia, and the hospitalization burden is currently not well understood. Here, we estimated serotype-specific and age-specific hospitalization rates of HFMD in Southern China.
Methods
We enrolled pediatric HFMD patients admitted to 3/3 county-level hospitals, and 3/23 township-level hospitals in Anhua county, Hunan (CN). Samples were collected to identify enterovirus serotypes by RT-PCRs between ...
Expand abstract
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
Actions
Authors
Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Public Library of Science Publisher's website
- Journal:
- PLoS One Journal website
- Volume:
- 13
- Issue:
- 12
- Pages:
- e0203792
- Publication date:
- 2018-12-13
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-11-30
- DOI:
- ISSN:
-
1932-6203
- Pmid:
-
30543631
- Source identifiers:
-
955419
Item Description
- Pubs id:
-
pubs:955419
- UUID:
-
uuid:ce3ebc9b-9ea6-4365-881a-cc07f366d9ad
- Local pid:
- pubs:955419
- Deposit date:
- 2019-01-07
Terms of use
- Copyright holder:
- Yu et al
- Copyright date:
- 2018
- Notes:
- © 2018 Yu 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.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
If you are the owner of this record, you can report an update to it here: Report update to this record