- Original Article
- Enterovirus 71-associated hand, foot and mouth diseases with neurologic symptoms, a university hospital experience in Korea, 2009
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Hye Kyung Cho, Na Yong Lee, Hyunju Lee, Hae Soon Kim, Jeong Wan Seo, Young Mi Hong, Seung Joo Lee, Sun Wha Lee, Doo Sung Cheon, Ji Young Hong, Byung Hak Kang, Jong-Hyun Kim, Kyung-Hyo Kim
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Clin Exp Pediatr. 2010;53(5):639-643. Published online May 31, 2010
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Purpose Hand-foot-mouth disease (HFMD) is a common viral illness in children, which is usually mild and self-limiting. However, in recent epidemics of HFMD in Asia, enterovirus 71 (EV71) has been recognized as a causative agent with severe neurological symptoms with or without cardiopulmonary involvement. HFMD was epidemic in Korea in the spring of 2009. Severe cases with complications including death have... |
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- Case Report
- A Case of Polio-like Encephalomyelitis Associated with
Enterovirus 71 Infection
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Hyun Kyung Roh, Hee Jung Chung, Young Mee Jee, Doo Sung Cheon
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Clin Exp Pediatr. 2001;44(11):1305-1310. Published online November 15, 2001
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Enterovirus 71(EV71), like polioviruses, invades the central nervous system to give rise to aseptic meningitis, encephalitis or myelitis. EV71 was first isolated in California in 1969 from a 9-month- old infant with encephalitis. Since then it has been isolated from the brain of children who died of encephalitis and from feces of patients with meningitis, encephalitis or paralysis. Related strains... |
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