Hand, foot, and mouth disease in China, 2008–12: an epidemiological study

• Published in: The Lancet infectious diseases Vol. 14; no. 4; pp. 308 - 318
• Main Authors: Xing, Weijia, Liao, Qiaohong, Viboud, Cécile, Zhang, Jing, Sun, Junling, Wu, Joseph T, Chang, Zhaorui, Liu, Fengfeng, Fang, Vicky J, Zheng, Yingdong, Cowling, Benjamin J, Varma, Jay K, Farrar, Jeremy J, Leung, Gabriel M, Yu, Hongjie
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Elsevier Ltd 01.04.2014; Lancet Publishing Group; Elsevier Limited
• Subjects: Adolescent; Age; Age Factors; Biological and medical sciences; Child; Child, Preschool; China - epidemiology; Enterovirus; Enterovirus - classification; Enterovirus A, Human; Epidemiology; Fatalities; Female; Geography; Global health; Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease - diagnosis; Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease - epidemiology; Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease - mortality; Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease - virology; Human viral diseases; Humans; Illnesses; Incidence; Infant; Infectious Disease; Infectious diseases; Male; Medical research; Medical sciences; Mortality; Patients; Population studies; Provinces; Public health; Rain; Seasons; Serotyping; Severity of Illness Index; Time Factors; Viral diseases; Viral diseases with cutaneous or mucosal lesions and viral diseases of the eye; Asia; China; Southeast Asia; China, People's Rep., Hong Kong; China, People's Rep; Infection; Human; Skin disease; Hand foot and mouth disease; Epidemiology; Viral disease

Hand, foot, and mouth disease is a common childhood illness caused by enteroviruses. Increasingly, the disease has a substantial burden throughout east and southeast Asia. To better inform vaccine and other interventions, we characterised the epidemiology of hand, foot, and mouth disease in China on...