Unusual skin manifestation of hand, foot and mouth disease associated with coxsackievirus A6: cases report.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Hand, food, and mouth disease (HFMD) is a highly contagious disease caused by enteroviruses infection. It is a health problem in young children under 5 years of age worldwide. The common causative agents are coxsackievirus A 16 (CA16) and enterovirus 71 (EV71). In recent years, coxsackievirus A6 (CA6) has emerged to be one of the major etiologic agents of HFMD worldwide including in Thailand.

Case description

We reported cases with unusual skin manifestations of CA6-associated HFMD such as widespread severe cutaneous eruption, large vesicles (varicelliform), purpuric-like lesions or Gianotti-Crosti like eruptions.

Discussion and evaluation

Molecular characterization of the CA6 strains from those patients found that all were clustered in the same group of CA

SUBMITTER: Chatproedprai S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4504872 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature