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Enterovirus Infection in Children
Mitsuaki Hosoya
Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine
Enterovirus is a small RNA virus classified in the family picornaviridae. Genus enterovirus includes polioviruses, echoviruses, coxsackieviruses A and B, and enteroviruses. The most common manifestation is a nonspecific febrile illness. Other manifestations include pharyngitis, herpangina, hand-foot-mouth disease, nonspecific exanthema, aseptic meningitis, acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis, encephalitis/encephalopathy, acute flaccid paralysis, myopericarditis, and pleurodynia. In this article, etiology, epidemiology, clinical manifestation, diagnosis test, control measures, and treatment of enterovirus infection in children are discussed.
Key words：poliovirus, echo virus, coxsackivirus, entervirus D68
e-mail: mhosoya＠fmu.ac.jp
Received: July 12, 2017
Accepted: August 3, 2017
32 (6)：344─354,2017
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