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A case report of a teenager with severe hand, foot, and mouth disease with brainstem encephalitis caused by enterovirus 71

BACKGROUND: Hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD) is an acute viral infection occurring mostly in infants and children. Enterovirus 71 (EV71) infection mostly occurs in children < 5 years of age. Severe cases, however, are usually encountered in children under the age of 3 years, and exceedingly r...

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Autores principales: Chen, Ying-Fu, Hu, Lan, Xu, Feng, Liu, Cheng-jun, Li, Jing
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6373151/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30760232
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12887-019-1428-4