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Article: Molecular assays can distinguish between hand, foot and mouth disease variants.
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- TB & Outbreaks Week
- Article date:
- June 4, 2002
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2002 JUN 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Molecular screens can be used to differentiate between different forms of hand, foot and mouth disease in children, researchers in Taiwan report.
"Hand, foot and mouth disease is a common illness in children and is usually caused by coxsackievirus A 16 and enterovirus 71," explained Dr. K.-C. Tsao and colleagues working at Chang Gung University in Tao-Yuan. "It has been noted that enterovirus 71 infection is more severe with significantly greater frequency of serious complications and fatality than coxsackievirus A 16."
Polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based assays can ...
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